Byrd v. Byrd

DAVISON, V.C.J.

This is an action wherein the administrator of the estate of a deceased partner seeks in equity to compel the surviving partner to render an accounting of partnership income and assets.

Leonard Byrd died very suddenly in Hot Springs, Ark., on February 20, 1945, and his father, J. I. Byrd, the plaintiff herein, was appointed administrator of his estate. Three weeks after decedent’s death, this suit was filed against James Leslie Byrd, the younger brother of Leonard Byrd and son of the plaintiff. The decedent, who was single, lived with the defendant and his wife much of the time…