Crooker v. Crooker
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from tbe ruling of Mat, J. Bill in equity. The plaintiff sets forth in his bill that, in the year 1826, he formed a co-partnership with William D. Crooker of Bath, under the name and style of C. & W. D. Crooker, upon an understanding and agreement to share the losses and divide the profits of the co-partnership business equally between them.
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Exceptions from tbe ruling of Mat, J. Bill in equity. The plaintiff sets forth in his bill that, in the year 1826, he formed a co-partnership with William D. Crooker of Bath, under the name and style of C. & W. D. Crooker, upon an understanding and agreement to share the losses and divide the profits of the co-partnership business equally between them. Said co-partnership was from time to time engaged in the buying and selling of merchandise, the building and sailing of ships, the cutting and marketing of lumber, and other business, until the nineteenth day of June, 1854, when said…
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May, J.
As between the principal respondent, Wm. D. Crooker, and the orator, this is a case where the latter seeks, by his bill, to compel the adjustment of the affairs of a co-partnership of long standing between them, but which was dissolved June 19, 1854. The bill seeks to do this by causing the co-partnership property, both real and personal, to be applied, through the agency of a receiver, to the payment of the partnership debts. The said Wm. D. Crooker having failed, after notice to appear and answer, the bill is to be taken pro confesso as against…
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