Jaeger Manufacturing Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.

Hale, J. —

Irving A. Potwin was a certified public accountant, licensed and authorized to engage in the public practice, and did so engage in that practice from the time of the passage of the law relating to public accountants up to the time of his death on August 16, 1938.

The plaintiff is a corporation, all the stock of which is held by members of the same family except as to one stockholder. W. C. Jaeger and his three sons, W. J. Jaeger, C. S. Jaeger, and A. C. Jaeger, are the members of the family holding the stock. W. J. Jaeger has been secretary of the corporation since 1913, and as such…