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26 Miss. 595

Felder v. Wall

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1853

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1853-12-15

In error from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. William B. Wall, the defendant in error, filed his bill in the southern district vice-chancery court at Natchez, at the June term, 1849, against the plaintiff in error as administrator of Sibley, deceased. The bill charges that Sibley and Wall, in the year 1846, were parties by verbal agreement, in a small planting establishment' in Amite county.

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Mr. Justice Fishes

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Wall the complainant, and Sibley the intestate, entered into a copartnership to carry on a small farm for one year.

¶3The bill is filed for an account of the copartnership. The interlocutory decree directs an account to be taken of the amount due to the complainant.

¶4The order was made on the 1st day of July, 1851, and the account appears to have been taken on the same day. The final decree confirming the account, and ordering the defendants to pay the amount thereof, was made on the day following. This, it is insisted, was error.

¶5The interlocutory order should have directed an account to be taken between the parties of the partnership transactions. Except in those cases where the account is taken on the facts as they appear in the pleadings of the parties, or there is merely a calculation of interest to be made, the commissioner taking the account should give notice to the parties interested, of the time and place of taking the same. This does not appear by the record to have been done, and it was therefore error in the court below to confirm the report.

¶6Decree reversed, and cause remanded.

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