Pfeuffer v. Maltby

Citations

• 54 Tex. 454
• 1881 Tex. LEXIS 47

Syllabus

<p>1. Charge of court—Practice.—A charge of the court will not be considered on appeal unless there be a statement of facts in the record, except in a case where the pleadings contain matter which shows the charge to be necessarily erroneous.</p> <p>2. Contract — Partnership — Public policy.— Although a contract of partnership may be illegal, it does not follow that it is illegal or immoral for the parties to it, to fairly adjust the profits and losses that have resulted from it.</p> <p>3. Same.— After a partnership confessedly against public policy has been carried out, and money contributed by one of the parties has passed into other forms, a partner in whose hands the profits are, after the results of the partnership enterprise are completed, cannot refuse to account for and divide on the ground of the illegal character of the original contract.</p>