Case ID: so2d_143/html/0568-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Oren W. SHAFFER, Appellant, v. Frank ROSS, Appellee.
    No. 61-805.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
    July 31, 1962.
    Robert V. Shea and Curtis A. Myers, Coral Gables, for appellant.
    Thomas J. Walsh, Homestead, for appel-lee.
    Before PEARSON, TILLMAN, C. J., and HORTON and BARKDULL, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The appellant, as plaintiff, brought a complaint for dissolution of a claimed partnership with the defendant and for an accounting. The chancellor dismissed the suit at the close of the plaintiff’s case. The question therefore is whether the plaintiff established a prima facie case of the existence of a partnership. Hill v. Beacham, 79 Fla. 430, 85 So. 147.

A review of the evidence submitted shows a failure to prove a mutuality of interest in the profits and losses; therefore the chancellor correctly concluded that a partnership was not proved. Stevens v. McKibbin, 68 F. 406, 411 (5th Cir.1895). See Cooper v. Fulton, Fla.App.1961, 132 So.2d 616.

Affirmed.