Baker v. Tennent
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered February 1,1919, upon granting a nonsuit, dismissing an action for a partnership accounting, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
The appellant and respondent were engaged in the insurance and brokerage business under the name of Baker-Tennant & Company. As such, they executed to V. L. Prewett, the appellant’s mother-in-law, notes in the sum of approximately $8,000, which money was used in the partnership business and represented a debt of the partnership. In 1913, the partnership sold their insurance business to a corporation and thereafter two or three brokerage deals were completed. The appellant instituted this action for an accounting and settlement of the partnership affairs. The books of the company on their face…
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