Stockbridge v. Mixer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity under R. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, filed in the Superior Court on December 9, 1909, and afterwards amended, by an attorney at law to reach and apply to the payment of a debt of $9,500, alleged to be due to the plaintiff for professional services, certain equitable rights of the principal defendants described in the opinion. The defendants demurred to the bill as amended.
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Bill in equity under R. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, filed in the Superior Court on December 9, 1909, and afterwards amended, by an attorney at law to reach and apply to the payment of a debt of $9,500, alleged to be due to the plaintiff for professional services, certain equitable rights of the principal defendants described in the opinion. The defendants demurred to the bill as amended. The demurrers were heard by Richardson, J., by whose order an interlocutory decree was entered overruling them. The principal defendants appealed. On May 3, 1911, by order of Richardson, J., an interlocutory…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The plaintiff on December 9, 1909, brought this bill in equity under R. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, to establish a debt alleged to be owing to him for legal services from the defendants, J. Frank and William A. Mixer, as copartners under the name of Mixer Brothers and to reach and apply in payment thereof certain property of the copartnership, to wit, certificates of stock of a Maine corporation then held by the defendant bank under an agreement to return the stock on demand to Mixer in case the defendant Hayes should fail to carry out on or before December 12, 1909, the terms of an agreement and…
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