Partnership — Conflict of Evidence — Appeal.—Where, in an action instituted by the plaintiff against the estate of her deceased brother to have it decreed that' the former was entitled to one-half of the property of the estate as the surviving partner of the deceased, the court found upon conflicting evidence that no partnership had ever existed, such finding will not he disturbed on appeal.

Xd.—Evidence—Part of Correspondence—Volunteered Statement— Admissibility of Whole.—While it is true that a party may not, under the provisions of section 1854 of the Code of Civil Procedure, offer a letter of an opposing party for the mere purpose of laying the foundation for the admission of an answer to it containing self-serving declarations on the part of the writer of such reply, yet when the plaintiff has volunteered to state in part the subject matter of a correspondence between the parties, the other party is entitled to have and to present in evidence the whole correspondence to which her testimony thus volunteered relates.

Id.—Part of Conversation—Admissibility of Whole—Self-serving Declarations.—When part' of a conversation is given in evidence by one party, the whole conversation may be given by the other party, even though it may embrace the latter’s self-serving declarations.

Id.—Repudiation of Partnership—Laches—Evidence—Letter of Deceased.—In such action, where issues were joined as to whether the deceased had ever repudiated the partnership, and if so, whether the plaintiff was guilty of laches in prosecuting her claim, a letter of the deceased containing a repudiation of the partnership and ■denial of its existence was admissible.

Id.—Letters Written After Repudiation — Evidence—Laches.—In such action letters written by plaintiff after the alleged repudiation of the partnership are admissible as evidence tending to prove laches in the assertion of the existence of the parthership until after the partner’s death.