Wells v. Carpenter

This was an action of assumpsit, in the Will circuit court, brought by Wells against Carpenter, who had been partners in a grocery store, for Wells’ share of the stock which Wells had sold to Carpenter after dissolution of the partnership.

These parties had been partners in the grain trade, and flour and grocery business, into which Wells had put three thousand six hundred and seventy-six ¿o dollars as his proportion of the capital. The partnership commenced about the middle of May, 1868, and was dissolved about the last day of June of the same year; Carpenter to assume the grain business with…