SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17092, 25 August 1917, Page 13

SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT

TAJT v. STEEL. Mr Justice Sim yesterday morning delivered judgment in the case of Alfred Lancelot James Tait against Thomas Steel. Tho judgment concluded:—l think that "when the present action was commenced there was an existing partnership, and that the plaintiff jg entitled to insist on all the rights of a partner. The only specifio relief claimed by the plaintiff in his statement of claim was the issue of a writ of mandamus to oommand the defendant to keep the partnership books at the mill at Glenham, and to allow the plaintiff to have access to them there, also the recovery of a sum of £10 8s for expenses incurred bv the plaintiff in fruitless journeys to Glennam for the purpose of inspecting the books, which were not there. At my suggestion, Mi- Brasch applied to have the prayer amended by substituting for these claims a prayer for the dissolution of the partnership and for acoounts. I granted the application, and! the statement of claim is to be treated as amended accordingly. The_ partnership js one at will, and the plaintiff is entitled therefore to have it dissolved. Judgment accordingly dissolving the partnership and directing the_ accounts thereof to do taken and the business thereof wound up.