Hill

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment denying them relief in their action for an accounting of their alleged interest in the partnership previously entered into between themselves and defendants.

The evidence shows that on May 6, 1949, plaintiffs D. C. Hill and his wife and defendants John Hearron, Jr., and wife entered into a partnership agreement for the purpose of growing potatoes during the 1949 crop season. According to the terms of the agreement land was to be leased and certain enumerated initial expenses were to be borne by each in order to get the crop in the ground; that is, plaintiffs were to advance the funds necessary for the purchase of seed potatoes and advance funds necessary for the purchase of the fertilizer while defendants were to advance the funds necessary to lease the land and get the crop in the ground. The agreement further provided that when the potatoes had been planted an accounting was to be had of all costs up to that time; that if either party had advanced more money than the other an adjustment would be made between them so that each would bear one-half of the expenses and thereafter each partner was to advance one-half of the costs of…