Hyland v. City Garbage & Contracting Co.

Driver, J. —

This is the third time the affairs of the Cities Contracting Company (hereinafter called the partnership), the central figure of the present controversy, have been before this court. The two former occasions were Kelly v. Bank, 188 Wash. 614, 62 P. (2d) 1359, and Bank v. Nelson, 199 Wash. 631, 92 P. (2d) 711. The opinions in those cases contain a full account of the origin and history of the tempestuous venture, which seems to have been characterized from its inception by bitter dissension among its members.

The partnership was formed in November, 1932, for the sole purpose of…