Hagar v. Whitmore
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On eepoet. Bill in equity, with cross-bill, reported to the law court for hearing on bill, answers and testimony. The prayer of the bill was for an acounting by the defendants as trustees of the plaintiff ; — a decree to pay over all balances; — and for damages for their alleged mismanagement of the trust property. The case is fully stated in the opinion. Conduct and liabilities of trustees: 2 Pom.
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On eepoet. Bill in equity, with cross-bill, reported to the law court for hearing on bill, answers and testimony. The prayer of the bill was for an acounting by the defendants as trustees of the plaintiff ; — a decree to pay over all balances; — and for damages for their alleged mismanagement of the trust property. The case is fully stated in the opinion. Conduct and liabilities of trustees: 2 Pom. Eq. §§ 1060, 1062, note 2, 1068, 1066-1069; Perry Trusts, §§ 602, 770; 1 Flint’s Lewin on Trusts, 262, 268, 422, note, 424, 435; Oliver v. Court, 8 Price, 165; Campbell v. Walker, 5 Ves. 680;…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
This is an equity cause growing' out of numerous and varied commercial and maritime transactions, and in which all the testimony including a mass of correspondence, accounts, and vouchers for many years, also protests, general average statements, and other marine documents, together with numberless notes, bills, etc., has been reported to the law court in a voluminous record of over nine hundred printed pages, for original *250consideration. From this heterogeneous bulk, the law court is asked, without the aid of any master’s report or justice’s opinion, to sort out, and decide many questions of…
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