Reilly v. Woolbert’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. ““But there is also an alternative prayer for an accounting between the parties as creditor and debtor merely, in case no partnership is shown; and this rests on the allegation that respondent’s indebtedness to complainant ‘is by a complicated account, consisting of numerous items of debits and credits each month for over five years.’ This allegation is not sufficient to show either a complicated or a mutual account, so as to necessitate or permit the exercise of an independent chancery jurisdiction in the premises. Chrichton v. Hayles, 176 Ala. 223 , 57 South. 696 ; Phalin v. Dearman, 181 Ala. 320 , 61 South. 941 . It is not sufficient, because numerous items are not necessarily complicated, and because debits and credits do not alone constitute a mutual account. The demurrer to this aspect of the bill was well taken, and should have been sustained.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Huebener v. Chinn

2. “This [partnership] relation, under the allegations of the bill, would entitle complainant to an accounting and settlement of the partnership business, as an independent equity, regardless of the nature of the account, whether complicated or simple.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 510 So. 2d 138 - Sanders v. Kirkland & Co.