Newman v. Shields

The bill is for an accounting of the profits of the dissolved co-partnership of Newman-Shields.

In a suit in the Orange district court of Shields v.Newman, the latter, by counter-claim, set up the same cause for action alleged by the bill, and judgment was rendered against him. Later, in a suit in the Essex circuit court by Shields against Newman and one Shallcross, individually and as co-partners, in which Shallcross was not served and the cause was prosecuted against Newman individually, he set up the same cause for action by counter-claim. Upon a reference the referee found for Shields and…