Hughes v. Northampton Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 19,1909, by the administrator of the estate of John Hughes late of Passaic in the State of New Jersey against the Northampton Street Railway Company and John C. Hammond, Esquire, averring in substance that at the time of his death the plaintiff’s intestate was the owner of one hundred shares of the capital stock of the defendant railway company, “formerly named the Northampton and Williamsburg Railway Company,” which…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 19,1909, by the administrator of the estate of John Hughes late of Passaic in the State of New Jersey against the Northampton Street Railway Company and John C. Hammond, Esquire, averring in substance that at the time of his death the plaintiff’s intestate was the owner of one hundred shares of the capital stock of the defendant railway company, “formerly named the Northampton and Williamsburg Railway Company,” which certificate stood in the name of one Israel E. Sayres; that by reason of a reduction in the capital stock of the defendant the…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The decree appealed from was warranted upon the master’s report. All but the first of the plaintiff’s exceptions to that report rest simply upon the claim that the findings excepted to were unwarranted. But none of these findings are necessarily inconsistent with the subsidiary findings reported, and the evidence is not before us. It follows that we cannot sustain these exceptions. Freeland v. Wright, 154 Mass. 492. Crosier v. Kellogg, ante, 181.
As to the first exception, if we assume that the competency of the evidence can now be considered, yet the plaintiff has not directly argued that it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Freeland v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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