Goss v. Lanin

This is an action in equity for an accounting. The first petition filed was based upon the claim that the plaintiff and defendants were a co-partnership for the purpose of promoting a railroad in the state of Texas. An amendment was filed to this petition after some of the evidence had been taken, and this amendment seems to base a right for an accounting upon the theory that these parties had entered into an agreement for a joint adventure for the construction of a railroad in the state of Texas, or if not a joint adventure, an employment of agency was created and agreed to between the…