Dunlap v. Watson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, inserted in an original writ of summons and attachment, dated November 4, 1869, for the settlement of the affairs of a partnership. Hearing upon the pleadings, a master’s report and the defendant’s exceptions thereto, before Lord, J., who reserved the case for the consideration of the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The defendant excepts to the master’s report, because he disallowed his claim for services rendered both before the formation of the partnership, and after its termination.
The plaintiff and defendant were carpenters. The master finds that a copartnership was formed between them in 1855, for the purpose of erecting certain buildings for a corporation, and continued until the work was finished in 1856; that by the terms of the agreement, (there being no written articles of copartnérship,) each was to devote his whole time and labor to the business of the firm and pay his own personal expenses,…
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