Porter v. Long
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kent; Perkins, J. Bill by Millie C. Porter and others against George H. Long, executor of the last will and testament of Arthur B. Long, deceased, and surviving partner of the firm of' A. B. Long & Son, impleaded with another, for an accounting. Prom a decree for complainants, defendant, appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Arthur B. Long, a resident of Pennsylvania, was the owner of large tracts of pine and a sawmill *151in Michigan. He had also a two-thirds interest in a co-partnership lumber business, in which his son George had the remaining one-third interest, the articles of copartnership being in writing. This relation existing, Arthur B. Long entered into a contract on July 9, 1881, with the firm, whereby he allowed the firm to lumber the lands upon its agreement to pay $4 a thousand stumpage for logs. It is claimed, and this court has once found, that this was a contract of' great liberality towards the…
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