1 Mass. App. Ct. 814 | Mass. App. Ct. | 1973
The defendant has appealed (A) from a final decree of the Superior Court ordering him to pay the plaintiff one half of the profits (less deductions for the plaintiffs withdrawals) and one half of the value of the good will of an oral partnership in a real estate business which was terminable at the will of either party and which was effectively dissolved on November 24, 1967, when the defendant locked the plaintiff out of the partnership premises and precluded him from any further participation in the business, and (B) from interlocutory decrees denying his motions (filed three years after the order confirming the master’s report and from which no appeal was taken) [i] to vacate the order confirming the report, [iij to strike the report, and [iiij to recommit the report. As none of the reasons assigned in support of the motions has been argued in the defendant’s brief, we treat the appeals from the interlocutory decrees as waived (Rule 1:13 of the Supreme Judicial Court, 351 Mass. 738; Rule 1:13 of the Appeals Court), affirm those decrees, and confine ourselves to the points open on the appeal from the final decree and fairly argued. 1. The master (as also the court) was excused by the agreement of the parties with respect to the “net profits of the partnership from commissions due on sales” from making any subsidiary findings as to the income, expenses or
Interlocutory decrees affirmed.
Final decree (as modified) affirmed with costs of appeal.