Barron v. International Trust Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for the price of certain advertising alleged to have been done by the plaintiff for the defendant. Writ in the Supreme Judicial Court dated May 14, 1900. The ease was tried before Loving, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for money paid by him in advertising in certain newspapers a proposed subscription for and sale of mortgage bonds to be issued by a corporation known as the Boston Breweries Company of which the defendant was to be trustee for the bondholders. The declaration contained three counts, but the first and second become immaterial as the case was tried on the third count, which in substance alleges that the defendant being “ interested in the promotion of a combination of corporations ” desired to place the bonds on the market,…
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