Mulvane v. O'Brien

Doster, 0.

J. This was an action brought by O’Brien to compel Mulvane to account for profits alleged to have been made by him by betraying the confidence of O’Brien, who had intrusted him with the sale of certain shares of stock in the Topeka Water Supply Company, a corporation. The petition alleged that, from 1884 to 1890, when the sale of stock was consummated, Mulvane as president, and O’Brien as secretary, were the practical managers of the company’s affairs ; that, being thrown much together, a relation of mutual confidence developed between them, so that, when, in November, 1889, *464Mulvane…