Britton v. Goodman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, with a declaration on an account annexed to recover commissions on orders secured by the plaintiff and accepted by the defendants. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated April 14, 1919. Material pleadings and facts found by the judge in the Municipal Court are described in the opinion. - The defendants filed the following requests for rulings of law: “1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff’s action should be dismissed.
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Contract, with a declaration on an account annexed to recover commissions on orders secured by the plaintiff and accepted by the defendants. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated April 14, 1919. Material pleadings and facts found by the judge in the Municipal Court are described in the opinion. - The defendants filed the following requests for rulings of law: “1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff’s action should be dismissed. “2. That there is no property of the defendants within the jurisdiction of this court which could be come at to be attached. "3. That this court has…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The record recites the following facts concerning which there is no dispute: The plaintiff on April 14,1919, sued out of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston a writ of summons and attachment by trustee process in an action of contract wherein he is described as of “said Boston,” and the defendants Jacob A. Goodman and Lazure L. Goodman are named as “ copartners, doing business as the Goodman Hosiery Co. as the Keystone Knitting Mills and as the Dixie Hosiery Mills and having a usual place of business in Burlington, in the State of N. Carolina,” while the trustee, the Commercial Trading…
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