Dewberry v. McBride

KEITH, Justice.

Plaintiffs below appeal from an adverse judgment based upon several jury findings in a suit involving the ownership of a fractional interest in a tract of land owned or claimed at one time by the plaintiffs as members of a limited partnership. The facts are somewhat complicated, all disputed, and the briefs do not address a critical question in the case.

Plaintiffs were limited partners in a venture known as Rockhampton Investment Company (“Rockhampton”), and each initially owned an undivided five per cent share in Rockhampton of which one of the original defendants, McBride,…