Cook v. Gray
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon an account annexed for work and labor. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Dewey, J., who found for the plaintiff, and reported the case for the consideration of this court; such judgment to be entered as the court might determine. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in March 1881, and was afterwards submitted on briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The trustees were authorized by the articles contained in the deed of trust to bind the shareholders by contracts like these entered into with the plaintiff. It appears that a considerable number of persons associated themselves together for the purchase of several tracts of upland and flats situated on the sea-shore, for the purpose of improvement and subsequent sales, and took a deed of the premises running to three of their *108number as trustees, and containing a detailed statement, in fifteen articles, of the trusts upon which the premises should be held. In these articles, the names of the…
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