Johnson v. Graf

The plaintiff commenced this suit against Mary Graf, seeking to establish an oral partnership agreement between the parties, and for a decree dissolving such partnership, for an accounting, and for a division of profits. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the trial court sustained a motion to dismiss the action for the reason that the evidence was insufficient to establish a partnership. The plaintiff appeals.

The evidence on behalf of the plaintiff shows that in 1943 defendant was the owner of the Rondevous Tavern in Columbus, Nebraska, in which she was engaged in the sale of intoxicating…