McAtee

Plaintiff prosecutes this action for an accounting of partnership assets and for a decree that the partnership out of which the accounting arose was dissolved on or about March 22, 1922. The plaintiff was awarded a judgment and the defendant appeals.

The first point advanced for a reversal of the judgment is the insufficiency of the evidence to support the findings. The court found that, on July 7, 1919, the defendant was the owner in fee simple of one acre of land in the city of San Gabriel, California, together with the improvements thereon, consisting of a dwelling-house, a wooden frame chicken-house, two small paper chicken-houses and other minor improvements; that at said time and located on said property defendant owned and was raising approximately 400 chickens; that there were also a number of household furnishings and fixtures in the dwelling-house on said property; that on said date defendant was financially involved and in need of money to maintain himself and said property; that on said date defendant made a proposition to the plaintiff that, if plaintiff would go into partnership with him, give him some money in cash, secure employment and turn his wages over to the…