Olwell V. Hopkins

Defendant W. L. Hopkins and Independent Brokerage Company, a Washington corporation, agreed orally in 1927 to carry on joint farming operations in Santa Barbara County. The corporation was dissolved in 1936, and its business and assets transferred to a partnership composed of Eugene E. Olwell and Murray M. Olwell, the plaintiffs in the present action, and Merritt Bloxom. In 1942 the partnership transferred its business and assets to plaintiffs. The joint farming operations were discontinued in 1937.