Foucault v. Pinet

Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco.

This was an action for an accounting as between partners after dissolution. It appears that in 1866 the parties went into the coal business in San Francisco, on a capital of five thousand dollars. In 1868 they dissolved, and defendant received all the moneys that were collected.

The cause was referred to the Court Commissioner, who reported, among other things, that the parties were to share alike; that the profits and assets, excluding uncollected debts, amounted to two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, and that plaintiff had received out of the concern two hundred and nine dollars and twelve cents more than defendant. In stating the account the Commissioner did it substantially as follows:

Upon the account as thus stated the Commissioner found that plaintiff was entitled to judgment against the defendant for one thousand three hundred and seven dollars and ninety-three cents; and upon his report judgment was afterwards entered in favor of plaintiff.

The defendant appealed.