73 Neb. 295 | Neb. | 1905
This is an appeal from the judgment of a district court sustaining a general demurrer to the petition and dismissing the suit for failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The petition, which is some eight pages in length and contains twenty-three numbered paragraphs, is unnecessarily prolix and contains some irrelevant and redundant matter, but these and similar defects, of which the appellee complains in his brief, are not fatal and are waived by the demurrer. The petition alleges with sufficient certainty that the plaintiffs and defendant have been engaged jointly, since sometime in 1887, in the business of fanning in York and Custer counties in this state, under and in pursuance of an agreement between the parties that the gains and accumulations of the business should belong to the plaintiffs and the defendant jointly as partners, until dissolution by death or otherwise, when there should be an accounting, settlement and equitable division; that the partnership is terminable at the pleasure of either of the parties, and that the defendant has the possession and the apparent title of a large amount of real and personal property, accumulations of and belonging to the partnership, which he refuses to account for or make division of in compliance with the agreement and the request of the plaintiffs, but of which he claims to be the exclusive owner and which he threatens to sell and dispose of, and to squander or dissipate the proceeds or place them beyond the reach of the plaintiffs. There is a prayer for a dissolution and accounting and a division of the partnership estate, and that in the meantime the defendant be restrained from carrying his threats into execution. That these facts, if they exist, afford the plaintiffs a good cause of action, cannot well be doubted and they are- not deprived of actionable quality by being set forth inartistically or with too little conciseness.
There is a second ground of demurrer that there is a
It is recommended that the judgment of the district court be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings according to laAV.
By the Court: For the reasons stated in the foregoing
Reversed.