Swanton

This is an action brought for the dissolution of a partnership, and for an accounting between the parties to it, and for the recovery by the plaintiff of such sum as should be found due him thereon. The complaint sets up in full the articles of copartnership, from which it appears, in substance, that the parties were to engage in the business of giving aeroplane exhibitions in various parts of the country, and that as a preliminary thereto the defendant was to proceed to France, taking with him a man who was to be instructed there in the art of aviation; that the defendant was, while there, to inspect and purchase one or two aeroplanes for use in said exhibitions; that in order to meet the expenses of the trip each of the parties was to put up the sum of five hundred dollars, and which the defendant was to receive at the time of his departure for France; that each of the parties was to contribute the additional sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, which was to be placed in the hands of a trustee named in the agreement as soon as the defendant should have selected for purchase said machines; that thereupon the said trustee was to forward to said defendant such sum up to eight…