Hill v. Fuller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed J uly 20,1894, and amended by leave of court on September 19,1900, as described below. The bill was against Wirt X. Fuller, individually, and Wirt X. Fuller and Theodore P. Harding, copartners doing business under the name of Fuller, Harding and Company. In this report the word “ defendant” is used to designate the first named defendant.
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Bill in equity, filed J uly 20,1894, and amended by leave of court on September 19,1900, as described below. The bill was against Wirt X. Fuller, individually, and Wirt X. Fuller and Theodore P. Harding, copartners doing business under the name of Fuller, Harding and Company. In this report the word “ defendant” is used to designate the first named defendant. The following statement of the case is taken from the opinion of the court: This is a bill in equity by which, as amended, the plaintiff seeks contribution from the defendant for a payment made by him on a joint debt. The ease was sent…
1Opinion of the CourtLorusg, J.
[After the foregoing statement of the case.] We are of opinion that the finding made by the master was warranted by the evidence.
The defendant has objected that however it may be with the $3,388.33 due to the plaintiff on his separate account, there is nothing on which a finding can be made that the bonds were applied to the joint debt on November 7, 1889. The defendant relies in support of this objection on the fact that what the brokers are reported to have said on the day when the plaintiff tendered them half the joint debt was that “ they had applied the plaintiff’s private account in…
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