Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court April 4, 1882 (Green v. Russell)

Morton, C. J.

The contract between Edward H. Green and Jonathan Russell for the sale of the interest of the former in the firm of Russell & Sturgis was partly written and partly oral. They, with others, were members of the firm of Russell & Sturgis of Manila in the Philippine Islands, which firm, by the *537articles of copartnership, expired on December 81,1871.