Prickett v. Sloggy

Citations

• 59 Wash. 481
• 110 P. 11
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1228

Syllabus

<p>Partnership — Evidence of Relation — Sufficiency. The evi•dence shows that a partnership relation existed in a saloon business, ■although the oral evidence is conflicting, where the more convincing part of the testimony is composed of matters of record and bookkeeping, and it appears that plaintiff, who claimed to be a silent partner, advanced $2,229 to buy the business, there was never any understanding as to the rate of interest, and he was paid from time to time dividends out of the net profit, to the amount of $2,100 in two years, each of three parties taking a one-third part; the amounts repaid being inconsistent with the theory of interest on a loan.</p>