Cook v. Wootters

The plaintiff, Cook, alleged in his petition that I. M. E. W. Long and himself formed a partnership in 1865, for the purpose of farming; that Long died in 1866, and plaintiff managed the affairs of the concern until the close of that year, when, after paying a portion of the crop raised on an existing indebtedness, the balance, with the personal property, was divided between himself and Mrs. Josephine Long, the surviving wife of his former partner; that about that time the land belonging to himself and Long’s estate was, by agreement of all parties interested, sold to the Laceys, and a draft…