Slater, Myers & Co. v. Arnett

Citations

• 81 Va. 432
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 110

Syllabus

<p>Partnership—Settlements—Status quo ante.—Where suit in equity is instituted to settle the accounts of a dissolved firm, one of the members being dead, and the report of the master to whom those accounts have been referred, shows that, after diligent search, he has been unable to discover and report any evidence whatever to base a statement of the true condition of affairs between the members of the late firm, and of its assets, &c., the court, not being able to proceed to judgment upon suppositions and presumptions without evidence, can do no better than to withhold its hand, and to leave the parties to stand where they had placed themselves before suit was brought.</p>