Gill v. Mallory’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
April 1980
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he purpose of this clause [was] to avoid, if possible, the legal proceedings involved in dissolution and winding up of the partnership if the members of the firm should find themselves in discord and unable to continue functioning harmoniously as a partnership. . . . . . . The plaintiffs’ contention is that the majority decision was made selfishly and therefore not in good faith. We do not think that it was the purpose of the agreement to offer such an issue to be litigated whenever this clause in the agreement was availed of by a majority in interest. The purpose was to minimize litigation, not to create new issues to be tried in addition to those which would ordinarily be attendant upon dissolution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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