Duffield v. Brainerd
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in Equity for a disclosure and account, the payment of moneys found due, and the appointment of a receiver of partnership property; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The facts were found at great length by a committee and the case reserved for advice. The disposition made of the case by this court renders it unnecessary to state the facts more fully than they are given in the opinion.
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Bill in Equity for a disclosure and account, the payment of moneys found due, and the appointment of a receiver of partnership property; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The facts were found at great length by a committee and the case reserved for advice. The disposition made of the case by this court renders it unnecessary to state the facts more fully than they are given in the opinion. The principal points argued by the counsel become also for the same reason unimportant.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
In 1850 Erastus Brainerd, Erastus Brainerd, Jr., Frederick Hall, Joseph Stancliff, Mary M. Brainerd and Ellen M. Duffield, (the two latter by agent and trustee,) entered into a written copartnership agreement for the purpose of carrying on the business of quarrying and selling stone, for such length of time as a majority in interest of the partners should request and demand. At this time they were the owners of cattle, tools, carts, &c., of the value of $50,000, and quarry lands of the value of $235,000, and this property constituted their capital stock, and was owned in the following…
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