Galigher v. Lockhart
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Fifth, Judicial District, Beaverhead County. Action to dissolve a mining partnership and for an accounting. The cause was tried before Galbraith, J., without a jury. Plaintiff had judgment below.
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Appeal from Fifth, Judicial District, Beaverhead County. Action to dissolve a mining partnership and for an accounting. The cause was tried before Galbraith, J., without a jury. Plaintiff had judgment below. The court found that on the thirtieth day of June, 1887, the defendant Lockhart notified the plaintiff Galigher, in person, that he would not longer carry on the partnership operations, and that he would not be liable for any debts or expenses contracted by the said Galigher in the mining of the said claims, and also found that on the thirtieth day of June, 1887, there was a full…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwood, J.
The object of this action was to obtain a dissolution of copartnership; an accounting between the copartners, and also a partition of certain mining claims; but the question of partition was abandoned by the consent of all parties, and the action proceeded as to the other purposes.
The evidence introduced at the trial, and the findings of fact by the court, are before us for review on appeal from the judgment, and from an order overruling appellant’s motion for new trial.
It appears from the evidence and findings of fact that certain mining claims were owned in equal undivided interests by…
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