2-1/8 pages, on both sides of one sheet of lined blue paper, and 5 lines on a second attached sheet. 10x7½.

Fascinating legal document regarding the refusal of a member of a three-person partnership to acknowledge the partnership's existence when the other two members attempted to dissolve it, made somewhat peculiar by the insanity of one of the members. The document is headed "In Equity, Eml. Lundeburg and Joshua Holdem Committee of Montague Lundeburg a Lunatic vs. Simon Loven," and continues "To the Alcalde of the Sonoran Camp, Complaining...that in the month of October last past a copartnership was formed between the said Emanual Lundeburg, Montague Lundeburd , and Simon Loven, for carrying on a business generally in California the profits and losses of such business to be equally divided. That said copartnership has continued until this time the said Montague Lundeberg having in the mean time become and until now continued a lunatic or deranged person his insanity having commenced about the beginning of November. That the said Simon Loven now has denied and still denies wrongfully and unjustly the existence of the said coparthership..." Provenance: From the Library of Charles H. Segerstrom.