David Belasco Co. v. Klaw

These two cases were, by arrangement between counsel, tried together, upon the theory that the court would, by pursuing such a course, become informed fully of the facts involved in the entire controversy between the parties, and might be enabled more satisfactorily and *598within a briefer time to dispose of the issues, than the same results could be accomplished by separate trials. Both actions are founded upon articles of copartnership, and the relief prayed for in each is a dissolution and an accounting. Those written articles are subscribed by Joseph Brooks and David Belasco, and contain,…