Maynard v. Richards
Illinois Supreme Court
■ Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit, Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding.
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■ Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit, Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed in the circuit court of Cook county on May 14, 1895, by Edward S. Richards against Antoinette- R. Maynard, executrix of the will of John W. Maynard, deceased, and William A. Gardner, for the purpose of ascertaining the respective interests of said Richards and of the estate of the said Maynard in certain moneys recovered by the said Richards, as surviving partner of the firm of Richards, Maynard &…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
First—It is contended by Richards, that so much of the judgment for $95,594.17, as represented the loss of the profits from October 22, 1887, the time of the death of Maynard, up to January 2, 1894, when the ten years, for which the contract with the railway company was to run, expired, did not belong to the firm of Richards, Maynard & Co., but belonged to Richards himself individually; and that, therefore, he was not bound to account for the same with Maynard’s estate. It is claimed, that, when Maynard died on October 22, 1887, the partnership between Richards and Maynard was thereby…
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