Sossamon v. Littlejohn

Lewis, Justice.

This is an action by the plaintiff for the specific performance of an alleged contract betwen him and the defendant for the sale of the defendant’s one-half interest in a partnership business owned by them. The plaintiff and the defendant had for many years operated successfully, as equal partners, at Gaffney, South Carolina, a newspaper, printing business, and stationery shop, under the name of The Gaffney Ledger, in a building owned by the partnership. In 1959 there was an exchange of letters betwen them relating to the sale by the defendant to the plaintiff of defendant’s…