Legal Opinion

Ferguson v. Cripps

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided July 25, 1913PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Counter actions by partners each asking for an accounting and a recovery of the sum found to be due thereon, and one of them praying for the appointment of a receiver, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and referred to a committee who found and reported the facts, showing a balance due to Ferguson of $5,718; to the acceptance of this report Crippsfiled a remonstrance which the court, Curtis, J., overruled, and, after a motion to file additional grounds of…

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Counter actions by partners each asking for an accounting and a recovery of the sum found to be due thereon, and one of them praying for the appointment of a receiver, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and referred to a committee who found and reported the facts, showing a balance due to Ferguson of $5,718; to the acceptance of this report Crippsfiled a remonstrance which the court, Curtis, J., overruled, and, after a motion to file additional grounds of remonstrance had been denied (Holcomb, J.) and one to make the remonstrance more specific had been granted {Greene, J.),…

1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.

These cases have been tried as one, and will be so treated by us; Ferguson being referred to as the plaintiff and Cripps as the remonstrant.

The pleadings in each case show that a partnership, which had been dissolved, had existed between these parties from September, 1904, to July, 1906, and the only issue upon the pleadings was as to which, if either, partner was indebted to the other upon a proper statement of the partnership account, and the amount of the indebtedness. The cases were referred by the court to a committee for the trial of this issue. The principal questions before us relate…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Fox v. City of South NorwalkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1912

3Cited by16 opinions

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  3. Dombroski v. AbramsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
  4. Liefeld v. CoffinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1925
  5. Schilcher v. SchilcherSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1938

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