Supreme Court of Iowa April 7, 1886 (Johnson v. Mantz)

Peck, J.

I. The petition shows that the plaintiff and defendant Mantz are copartners in the business of quarrying stone; that the defendant the Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Company is indebted to the firm in a large sum for stone sold to it; that plaintiff, having no access to the books of the firm, has no knowledge of the amounts of money received by, Mantz, who, in the business, acts