Butts v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill to Declare a Partnership and an Accounting and Dissolution. Appeal from Crenshaw Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. L. Parks. Bill by T. U. Butts against J. T. Cooper for an accounting and dissolution of partnership, and to declare a trust in certain property in favor of complainant and against respondent. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. A partnership was created. — 3 Pom. Eq.
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Bill to Declare a Partnership and an Accounting and Dissolution. Appeal from Crenshaw Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. L. Parks. Bill by T. U. Butts against J. T. Cooper for an accounting and dissolution of partnership, and to declare a trust in certain property in favor of complainant and against respondent. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. A partnership was created. — 3 Pom. Eq. Jur. § 1044-A; Sandford v. Hamner, 115 Ala. 406; Senders v. Steele, 124 Ala. 415; Waller v. Jones, 107 Ala. 321; Kent v. Dean, 128 Ala. 600; Sprinkle v. Hayworth, 26 Gratt. 384. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This was a bill filed by the appellant against the appellee, alleging that appellee ivas interested as an equal partner with one Cosby at Brantley, Ala., operating a sawmill and owning lands and timber rights and also a railroad and certain personal property connected with the business; that negotiations were pending between Cooper and Cosby, looking to the buying out of the interest of one or the other by the other partner; that Cooper was not able to make the moneyed arrangements to buy Cosby, and approached complainant, shortly before July, 1900, informing him that Cosby’s interest could…
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