Universal Garage Co. v. Fowler

Jenkins, Justice.

The plaintiff filed against an employee what is designated as an equitable petition, praying for an accounting in equity and a judgment for whatever amount might be found due. While it was pleaded that the transactions were intricate and complicated, so as to render the remedy at law inadequate, the facts stated show only an alleged misappropriation of funds from the plaintiff’s cash register during the period from 1925 to 1929, and their alleged fraudulent concealment by incorrectly writing and reporting on paper strips the daily totals of cash-sale items, shown by the cash…