Canty v. Beal
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the third district, for the palish of East Baton Rouge, the judge thereof presiding. This is an action for the settlement and balance on a partnership for carrying on the brick-malring business. The plaintiff alleges that in April, 1837, he put in six able bodied negroes, a cart and oxen, and the defendant was to furnish five negroes and his own services in carrying on a brickyard; the [283] profits arising to he on joint account.
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Appeal from the court of the third district, for the palish of East Baton Rouge, the judge thereof presiding. This is an action for the settlement and balance on a partnership for carrying on the brick-malring business. The plaintiff alleges that in April, 1837, he put in six able bodied negroes, a cart and oxen, and the defendant was to furnish five negroes and his own services in carrying on a brickyard; the [283] profits arising to he on joint account. That. these negroes were employed under the management and superintendence of defendant about seven months, and their services were worth…
1Opinion of the CourtMokpht, J.
The plaintiff sued for a settlement of accounts with defendant as managing partner of an association formed between them to carry on the business of brick making. In default of defendant’s rendering such account, it is prayed that he may be decreed to pay $1587, for the value of the services of certain negroes furnished by plaintiff to the concern, and moreover $500 as damages. The answer charges that plaintiff has failed to comply with his engagements to defendant; that he has not furnished any of the things he was bound to provide nor made any of the stipulated advances of funds to the…
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