Bennett v. Bennett
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clatsop: James A. Eakin, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. C. N. Bennett is prosecuting this suit against Ms wife Emma K. Bennett for the purpose of establishing a partnersMp between them and to secure a decree marshalling and dividing the alleged partnersMp assets.
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From Clatsop: James A. Eakin, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. C. N. Bennett is prosecuting this suit against Ms wife Emma K. Bennett for the purpose of establishing a partnersMp between them and to secure a decree marshalling and dividing the alleged partnersMp assets. The complaint avers that the husband and wife verbally agreed to purchase certain cranberry lands in Clatsop County, to sell portions and to improve and raise cranberries on other portions of the land. The pleading speaks of two tracts of land: One is known as the West place and the other as the railway…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harris
1. The husband asserts and the wife denies the making of a business partnership agreement. He alleges that they discussed the terms “during the winter of 1910-11” and “on or about the 12th day of July, 1911,” they “made and entered into a verbal agreement” of partnership. He testified that they discussed the cranberry venture from time to time during the months of February, March, April and May in 1911. He was unable to fix the date upon which the partnership agreement was concluded further than to say that an agreement was reached at some time between February 1 and May 24, 1911. According…
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- John Bird Co. v. HurleySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1895