McComb v. Lobdell
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Shenandoah county, but afterwards transferred to the circuit court of Augusta county, brought in September, 1871, by George G. Lobdell against Joseph Marston and Henry S. McComb, seting up a partnership, and seeking a settlement of the partnership transactions between the plaintiff and the defendants. McComb answered denying the existence of the partnership.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Shenandoah county, but afterwards transferred to the circuit court of Augusta county, brought in September, 1871, by George G. Lobdell against Joseph Marston and Henry S. McComb, seting up a partnership, and seeking a settlement of the partnership transactions between the plaintiff and the defendants. McComb answered denying the existence of the partnership. The cause came on to be heard on the 5th of December, 1878, when the court held that the partnership as set out in the supplemental bill of the plaintiff was satisfactorily proved,…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The complainant, George G. Lobdell, and Charles Bush of the state of Delaware, and J. P. Pinker, Samuel M. Lantz and Jospeh Marston, of Virginia were, in 1854, the owners of Caroline furnace in the county of Shenandoah, Virginia, and of Union forge, and of the lands and personal property belonging to them respectively, which they were operating in partnership, under the name and style of Marston, Bush & Co.—the two former owning two-fifths in the furnace and one-third in the forge, and the latter owning one-fifth each in the furnace and one-fifth of two-thirds each in the forge property.…
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