Shearer v. Shearer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the administratrix of Leonard B. Shearer, to compel the conversion, and division as personalty, of real estate, bonds for the conveyance of real estate, and proceeds of real estate by way of rent or sales since the death of the complainant’s intestate, remaining as the property of certain part* nerships of which he was a member, after the settlement of their affairs.
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Bill in equity by the administratrix of Leonard B. Shearer, to compel the conversion, and division as personalty, of real estate, bonds for the conveyance of real estate, and proceeds of real estate by way of rent or sales since the death of the complainant’s intestate, remaining as the property of certain part* nerships of which he was a member, after the settlement of their affairs. The case was reserved by Wells, J., on the bill and answer, for determination by the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
A former bill, brought by the same party, substantially for the same purposes as the present, was dismissed on the ground that the right to adjust the affairs of the subsidiary partnerships of Shearer & Paine, and Shearer & Jones, and to receive the net results thereof due to the original partnership of L. B. & D. L. Shearer, belonged to D. L. Shearer, as the survivor of that firm. 12 Allen, 289. Since then, the affairs of those subsidiary partnerships have been closed, and the respective shares of Paine and Jones assigned, or designated to be assigned to them; the debts of the several…
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