Whitman v. Jones

This is an appeal by the defendant Jones, hereinafter called the defendant, from a final decree entered in a suit for a partnership accounting.1 The evidence is reported and the judge, at the defendant’s request, reported the material facts found by him.

Facts found by the judge and those which we find (Lowell Bar Association v. Loeb, 315 Mass. 176, 178) may be summarized as follows: On November 1, 1945, the plaintiff and the defendant by an agreement in writing formed a partnership to carry on a brokerage business in food under the *341name of Jones-Whitman Company. The defendant prior to that…