J. A. Holifield & Co. v. White
Supreme Court of Georgia
Partnership. Landlord and tenant. Levy and sale. Charge of Court. Before Judge James Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court-. May Term, 1874. J. A. Holifield & Company sued out an attachment-against, James F. A. Boyal for $500' 20, besides interest, and had (he-same levied upon a one half interest in thirty-eight bales of cotton. A claim was interposed by James F. White. Pending the litigation the claimant died, and his executrix, Louisa. A. White, was made a party in his stead.
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Partnership. Landlord and tenant. Levy and sale. Charge of Court. Before Judge James Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court-. May Term, 1874. J. A. Holifield & Company sued out an attachment-against, James F. A. Boyal for $500' 20, besides interest, and had (he-same levied upon a one half interest in thirty-eight bales of cotton. A claim was interposed by James F. White. Pending the litigation the claimant died, and his executrix, Louisa. A. White, was made a party in his stead. The issues made upon the trial were, first, one of fact, to-wit: whether Boyal had turned over to White his interest in…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
White was to furnish the land and stock, and Royal the labor and pay for it. This made, as they rated it, each of them equal contributors towards the farming adventure into which they had agreed to enter. After that they were to bear equally the expense of feeding the stock and laborers, and all other plantation expenses, and thus make a crop, which was *569to be theirs equally, and to be divided between them. There was something more in this than a common interest in the profits. It is different from the case of Holloway vs. Brinkley, 42 Georgia, 226, for there the stipulation was…
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