Copeland v. Crane
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a bill in equity brought by the plaintiff as administratrix of the estate of Isaac Copeland ; in which she alleges, that in 1813 the intestate entered into the business of carpentry and machine-making, as a partner on equal shares with Thomas Crane, one of the defendants ; that she believes there never was any written agreement containing the terms of the copartnership'; that Thomas Crane was the agent of the company and had the keeping of the books, until the…
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This was a bill in equity brought by the plaintiff as administratrix of the estate of Isaac Copeland ; in which she alleges, that in 1813 the intestate entered into the business of carpentry and machine-making, as a partner on equal shares with Thomas Crane, one of the defendants ; that she believes there never was any written agreement containing the terms of the copartnership'; that Thomas Crane was the agent of the company and had the keeping of the books, until the dissolution of the co-partnership, which took place by mutual consent in October, 1823 ; that during the last eighteen months…
1Opinion of the Court
Wilde J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. Several exceptions have been taken to the report of the master, none . of which, we think, can be sustained.
The first exception is, that the defendants were examined upon oath, on interrogatories before the master, he having no special authority by the order of reference thus to examine them.
The order is very general, and does not specify the principles upon which the accounts were to be taken by the master But neither party objected to the form of the order, or it *79would have been drawn up, perhaps, with more precision. But this exception cannot be…
2Cited by1 opinion
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