Steinberg v. Eagan

Citations

• 234 Pa. 291
• 83 A. 272
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 644

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Multiplicity of assignments.</p> <p>1. Assignments of error should not he unnecessarily multiplied. They should he restricted to the important and controlling questions involved in the controversy.</p> <p>Partnership — Accounting—Equity — Decree — Distribution of assets.</p> <p>2. Where on a bill in equity for a partnership accounting it appears that certain partnership assets were to go on dissolution to the plaintiffs, if the defendant cancelled the agreement, it is improper for the court in the decree awarding an accounting and referring the matter to an auditor to decree that, the defendant having cancelled the agreement, the assets belonged to the plaintiffs. Such a decree could not be made before the payment of the partnership debts and costs of dissolution, inasmuch as there are no assets for distribution until such debts and costs are paid.</p>