Hall v. Clagett
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in Equity. The hill in this case was filed on the 1st of February, 1856, in the interest of Mary C. Scott, the only child of Polydore E. Scott, by Charles Clagett, her guardian, she being a minor, for an account and settlement of the partnership, which had for many j'ears existed between her deceased father and her uncle Horatio C. Scott, who alone was made defendant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in Equity. The hill in this case was filed on the 1st of February, 1856, in the interest of Mary C. Scott, the only child of Polydore E. Scott, by Charles Clagett, her guardian, she being a minor, for an account and settlement of the partnership, which had for many j'ears existed between her deceased father and her uncle Horatio C. Scott, who alone was made defendant. In the year 1826, Horatio C. Scott, and his brother Polydore E. Scott formed a mercantile partnership in Upper Marlboro’ under the name of H. C. Scott & Co., which…
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
The bill in this case was filed the 1st of February, 1856.
Amongst other things it avers a partnership had existed between the brothers H. C. & P. E. Scott, commencing in the year 1825, and was actively engaged in merchandising until the year 1842, and up to the death of P. E. Scott in 1855; that after the year 1842, there was no new business, and its partners were confined to the winding up of what had been antecedently thereto actively conducted.
It further charges, “that although upon a just settlement of the partnership, H. C. Scott is largely indebted to his co-partner, yet that he has…
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