Minikin

This action was brought for a dissolution of partnership; for the appointment of a receiver; for an *339 accounting, a sale of the partnership assets, and distribution of proceeds to the partners. As the result of the trial of one of the issues with respect to the accounting, the trial court rendered a judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $290, which was found to be one-half the total cost of several improvements made by the partnership on certain real property owned by defendant. The latter has appealed from that judgment.

It appears from the facts found by the trial court that on or about the 1st day of July, 1929, at Santa Barbara, California, the parties hereto formed a partnership for the purpose of engaging in a general woodworking business under the name and style of “Custom Woodworkers”; that the partners transacted the partnership business for the period of approximately five and one-half years; that during the continuance of the partnership certain real property personally owned by the defendant partner was occupied and used by the partnership for business purposes; and that pursuant to an agreement between the partners certain improvements were made on the said real…