Mardikian

Plaintiff-respondent George Mardikian brought this action for dissolution and accounting of a partnership alleged to have been orally entered into on November 15, 1943, between him and defendant-appellant Haig Tatosian (hereinafter referred to as defendant). (H. S. Menick, trustee in bankruptcy, has been substituted as defendant and appellant.) The partnership was formed for the purpose of growing, selling and producing vegetables and other produce on *665 a 320-acre piece of property in Imperial Valley owned equally by the parties. It is alleged that defendant operated the farm, earned large profits and accumulated certain assets, and defendant has appropriated them without accounting and that the amount of profits and assets was unknown to plaintiff. Defendant denied the allegations and claimed no partnership ever existed.

The court found generally in accord with the allegations of the complaint and specifically found that on November 15, 1943, they entered into the partnership agreement and they transacted business according to the agreement until August 24, 1955, when it was dissolved by mutual consent, subject to an accounting; that by the agreement the parties agreed to…