Felder v. Wall
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. William B. Wall, the defendant in error, filed his bill in the southern district vice-chancery court at Natchez, at the June term, 1849, against the plaintiff in error as administrator of Sibley, deceased. The bill charges that Sibley and Wall, in the year 1846, were parties by verbal agreement, in a small planting establishment' in Amite county.
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In error from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. William B. Wall, the defendant in error, filed his bill in the southern district vice-chancery court at Natchez, at the June term, 1849, against the plaintiff in error as administrator of Sibley, deceased. The bill charges that Sibley and Wall, in the year 1846, were parties by verbal agreement, in a small planting establishment' in Amite county. The terms of said partnership are stated to have been, that each of said partners was to furnish three hands each, the necessary teams, plantation…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fishes
Wall the complainant, and Sibley the intestate, entered into a copartnership to carry on a small farm for one year.
The bill is filed for an account of the copartnership. The interlocutory decree directs an account to be taken of the amount due to the complainant.
The order was made on the 1st day of July, 1851, and the account appears to have been taken on the same day. The final decree confirming the account, and ordering the defendants to pay the amount thereof, was made on the day following. This, it is insisted, was error.
The interlocutory order should have directed an account to be taken…
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