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84 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. Company. The partnership was to continue for five years, unless dissolved at an earlier period, as specified in the arti- cles; and of the capital of $20,000, Alonzo Lilly & Company were to put in $15,000 and the defendant $5,000, in the sums and at the periods in that respect provided for. The firm commenced the transaction of business accordingly, and the interest of John C. Baldwin, one of the persons composing the firm of Alonzo Lilly & Company, having been purchased by said Lilly, and the said Lilly and Kroesen having purchased the interest of Royal T. Church, another of said parties, the entire interest in the firm of Josiah Kroesen and Company, became vested in the said Kroesen and Lilly. The partnership of Kroesen & Company, which, when formed, consisted of four parties, was thus reduced to two, and on the 1st of January, 1839, was dissolved by written agree- ment, dated on that day: the agreement of dissolution, of which the following ia a copy, being written on the same paper upon which the articles themselves were written. "BALTIMORE, 1st of January, 1839. "Alonzo Lilly having purchased of John C. Baldwin his entire interest in the firm of Josiah Kroesen & Co., and Alonzo Lilly and Josiah Kroesen having purchased of Royal T. Church, for the sum of $2,080, payable 1st and 4th of September next, his entire interest in said firm, two-thirds or which, say $1,386 67, is charged to A. Lilly, and one-third, or $693 33, to J. Kroesen, and J. Kroesen having taken the stock of goods now on hand, which cost, as per inventory No. 6, $21,880, at the even sum of $20,000, fifteen thousand dollars of which is debited to Alonzo Lilly, and five thousand dollars to Josiah Kroesen on the books of the concern, which amounts are to settle the amounts originally put in by Alonzo Lilly & Com- pany (whose account is now closed by A. Lilly and J. Kroe- sen), as the capital of the concern: It is hereby agreed, that the firm be this day dissolved, and that Josiah Kroesen shall go on to wind up the business thereof, in the order following: te wit, the amount now standing to the debit ($943 03) and |
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