Broadhead v. Stack

RODGERS, Justice:

This case is before this Court on appeal by S. Norris Broadhead and Paul E. Broadhead, Co-Executors and Co-Trustees of the Estate of Sam Broadhead, Deceased, and on a cross-appeal by J. E. Stack, Jr., from a decree of the Chancery Court of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. The chancellor’s decree affirmed in part and overturned in part a report of a Special Master in Chancery.

Broadhead and Stack were engaged in the oil business as joint venturers. Stack was the field man in the operation and Broadhead was responsible for the office work, including bookkeeping and handling…