D. J. Doyle & Co., Pty. Ltd. v. Darden

The plaintiff, a proprietary limited company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia, has no usual place of business within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On December 19, 1949, the plaintiff, through one Greenwood, an attorney in fact, brought this bill in equity, which is in the nature of equitable replevin as well as for an accounting of funds impressed with a trust, against the defendant Darden, a wool broker in Boston. The plaintiff alleges that on or about February 3, 1949, it shipped three hundred eighty-three bales of wool to the value of more than $138,000 on…