Richardson v. Doty

Irvine, C.

This was an action for an accounting between partners, the plaintiff Richardson alleging that about October 10, 1886, he and Doty entered into a partnership under a verbal contract for the purpose of building railroads and dealing in supplies for the construction of railroads; that Doty was to devote his entire time to superintending the work, and that the profits were to be shared equally. He then sets up three separate pieces of work performed during the existence of the partnership. One was the construction of a line of railroad known as the Culbertson Line, which he says that…