Brockett v. Lewis
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Calhoun; Hopkins, J. Bill by Lucius B. Brockett, Frank M. Brockett, and Benjamin D. Brockett, copartners as L. B. Brockett & Sons, the Chas. A. Strelinger Company, and Joseph T. Ryerson & Son against Harry P. Lewis, individually and as trustee, Morgan M. Lewis, and Syra E. Lewis, to enforce a trust and for an accounting. From an order sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The complainant’s bill alleges:
1. That they are creditors of the Michigan Consolidated Boat Company, Limited, a partnership association, organized and doing business at Battle .Creek, under the laws of this State.
2. In 1903 the stockholders or board of managers of the aforesaid company assigned all of its property, and turned over its books of account, to Harry P. Lewis, upon his agreement to conduct its business and from the profits pay its obligations to the complainants and other creditors of the company, and after such payment return to the company the property assigned.
3. That at the…
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