Ottison v. Edmonds

Citations

• 15 Wash. 362
• 46 P. 398
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 197

Syllabus

<p>PARTNERSHIP — EVIDENCE — SPECIAL VERDICT.</p> <p>In an action against several persons on the theory that they are co-partners in the quarrying business, which relation they deny, the general verdict of the jury against them should be set aside, when the special verdict of the jury finds such partnership's having been •entered into at a certain time and place, based upon a memorandum in evidence, which has none of the elements of a contract of partnership but is a unilateral agreement whereby certain lands are leased to defendants for quarrying purposes, there being no evidence showing the presence of all the alleged partners at the time and place such agreement was found by the jury to have been entered into.</p>