Tillar v. Cook
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Greensville county, rendered 23d April, 1879, in a chancery suit, -wherein B. D. Tillar was plaintiff, and Fanny M. Cook, and W. S. Goodwyn and E. C. Tredway, trustees, and John Enders, cestui que trust, were defendants. Said Tillar and Mrs. Cook formed a partnership to repair and run on common account, and for common profit, a mill. She furnished the mill, and he the money to repair and the labor and skill to run it.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Greensville county, rendered 23d April, 1879, in a chancery suit, -wherein B. D. Tillar was plaintiff, and Fanny M. Cook, and W. S. Goodwyn and E. C. Tredway, trustees, and John Enders, cestui que trust, were defendants. Said Tillar and Mrs. Cook formed a partnership to repair and run on common account, and for common profit, a mill. She furnished the mill, and he the money to repair and the labor and skill to run it. The instrument evidencing the contract "bears the form of a lease by her to him of the mill on the terms aforesaid. Both executed it, the…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
In March, 1879, the appellant filed his bill in the circuit court of Greensville county, against the appellees, setting forth that in 1877, he had entered into a contract, which was recorded July, 1877, with Mrs. Cook, one of the appellees, by which it was mutually agreed between the contracting parties to enter into a *479joint venture in the business of milling at the mill of the appellee Cook, and to divide equally between them, the profits of the said business; that the mill was to be repaired by the said appellant, and he was to be reimbursed out of the appellee, Cook’s share of the profits…
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