Masters v. Brooks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-appeals by the plaintiffs, Joseph W. Masters and another, and by the defendant, Frederick W. Brooks, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 4th day of January, 1908.
1Opinion of the Court
Soott, J.:
These are cross-appeals from a decree entered upon the report of a referee in an action for a. partnership accounting. The plaintiffs in the year 1897 were custom house brokers. The defendant had been employed for a number off years in the Custom House and in the office of the United States attorney for this district, and had acquired an especial knowledge of custom house business, of the revenue laws and of the treasury practice and regulations affecting importations and ■ the levying and imposition of duties. A new tariff bill was enacted in 1897, and in contemplation of its…
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