Legal Opinion
In Re the Accounting of Brown
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 7, 1930PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Crane, J. J.
Romaine Brown, of Yonkers, N. Y., died on November 5, 1924, ninety-one years of age. Until within a few weeks of his death he was actively engaged in the real estate business in New York city and Westchester county, conducting it with a will and determination, according to his own plans and ideas. In the buying and selling of real estate, wherein his fortune of over $3,000,000 had been made, he used methods peculiar to himself. He took and carried title in dummy corporations or in the name of his clerks, and had an aversion to the keeping of books. His bookkeeper posted such…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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3Cited by46 opinions
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