Brown v. Floersheim Mercantile Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by trustee process against the Floersheim Mercantile Company, alleged to be a New Mexico corporation with a usual place of business in that State, and Bichard J. Salter, James Hewins and Harry B. Thayer of Boston, copartners doing business under the name and style of Salter Brothers and Company, alleged trustees.
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Contract by trustee process against the Floersheim Mercantile Company, alleged to be a New Mexico corporation with a usual place of business in that State, and Bichard J. Salter, James Hewins and Harry B. Thayer of Boston, copartners doing business under the name and style of Salter Brothers and Company, alleged trustees. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated August 25, 1909; also Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 9, 1909, by the same plaintiffs against the corporation and partnership who were respectively defendant and alleged trustees in the action at…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The first case is an action of contract brought by trustee process, and the principal question raised by the exceptions is, whether the order discharging the trustees upon their answers to the plaintiffs’ interrogatories should.be reversed. The answers, which must be taken as true, show that at the date of the service of the writ the alleged trustees, who were a firm of wool brokers, received on account of the principal defendant a non-negotiable bill of lading for a quantity of wool *375consigned to them, to be sold on commission and the net proceeds remitted to it. Corsiglia v. Burnham, 189…
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