Wall v. Old Colony Trust Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed March 15,1897, against the Old Colony Trust Company, the Boston Cordage Company, Charles H. Pearson, Charles Davis, and Edward M. Pulton, to recover damages caused by an alleged participation by the defendants in a wrongful conversion of certain shares of stock by one Prank T. Wall, the plaintiff’s copartner.
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Bill in equity, filed March 15,1897, against the Old Colony Trust Company, the Boston Cordage Company, Charles H. Pearson, Charles Davis, and Edward M. Pulton, to recover damages caused by an alleged participation by the defendants in a wrongful conversion of certain shares of stock by one Prank T. Wall, the plaintiff’s copartner. The bill was dismissed for want of service as against all the defendants except the Old Colony Trust Company and Pearson, each of whom demurred to the bill. There was a hearing before Barker, J., who reserved the case for the consideration of the full court. The…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
A former decision on the bill and demurrers in this case is reported in 174 Mass. 340. The case now comes before us on an appeal from the final decree entered by a single justice in accordance with the rescript sent down by this court. At the former hearing before the full court on December 8,1898, Mr. Justice Holmes, being interested, withdrew, and the argument proceeded before four justices, — a bare quorum of the court. Pub. Sts. c. 150, § 2. Before the case was decided, Chief Justice Field, one of the sitting justices, became incapacitated by illness, and on July 15, 1899, he died. Rule…
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