Burlingame v. Goodspeed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed by the administratrix of the estate of Pardon A. Burlingame against Henry C. Goodspeed and Franklin Reed, for an accounting. Hearing before Devens, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court, in substance as follows. Service was had upon Goodspeed alone, and he alone defended.
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Bill in equity, filed by the administratrix of the estate of Pardon A. Burlingame against Henry C. Goodspeed and Franklin Reed, for an accounting. Hearing before Devens, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court, in substance as follows. Service was had upon Goodspeed alone, and he alone defended. The intestate was indebted to Reed in a sum of money, which was subsequently fixed by a judgment recovered against his estate at $585.67., and Goodspeed, at Reed’s request, applied to him for security for the payment of the debt. The intestate thereupon delivered to Goodspeed…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The substantial facts in this case are as follows. Reed was a creditor of Burlingame, the plaintiff’s intestate. By Reed’s request, Goodspeed applied to Burlingame for security, and received from him a bill of sale of of the schooner. The bill of sale is not before us, but at the time of receiving it Goodspeed delivered to Burlingame a written agreement signed by himself as trustee, reciting that Burlingame had given the bill of sale “ to Henry 0. Goodspeed, trustee,” and promising to reconvey the ^ of the schooner to Burlingame upon payment to Goodspeed, trustee, of the amount that should be…
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