Hughes

The complaint alleges that the parties are partners in the business of buying and selling real estate; that the partnership property consisted of twenty-one lots described in the complaint, and that the defendant has misapplied and refused to account for moneys belonging to the partnership. The prayer is for a dissolution of the partnership, an accounting and other relief. The answer denies the allegations of the complaint.

A trial was had before Judge Moncur, judge of the superior court of Plumas County, sitting in the superior court of Los Angeles County. The transcript of the oral testimony introduced at such trial covers 991 pages and the exhibits cover nearly 200 pages additional. At the end of the hearing, on conflicting evidence, the court found the existence of the partnership and its ownership of the twenty-one lots, as alleged in the complaint, and “that plaintiff is entitled to an interlocutory judgment dissolving said partnership and decreeing that an accounting of the said partnership business be had between plaintiff and defendant, and that upon such accounting being had a final judgment in this action be entered in accordance with the facts found upon such…