Steele v. Estabrook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on March 5, 1914, by James P. Steele against Fred W. Estabrook, John W. Estabrook, Hervey W. Estabrook, the Marlborough Grain Company and the Peoples National Bank, praying for an accounting between the plaintiff and all the defendants except the defendant bank of all the property and assets of the partnership between the plaintiff and the defendant Hervey W. Estabrook, including the land, elevator sheds, personal property, good…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on March 5, 1914, by James P. Steele against Fred W. Estabrook, John W. Estabrook, Hervey W. Estabrook, the Marlborough Grain Company and the Peoples National Bank, praying for an accounting between the plaintiff and all the defendants except the defendant bank of all the property and assets of the partnership between the plaintiff and the defendant Hervey W. Estabrook, including the land, elevator sheds, personal property, good will, horses, wagons, grain and accounts receivable and all matters and things connected with such partnership at the time…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
From the master’s report in the first of these two: cases it appears that before January 1, 1914, James P. Steele and *435Hervey W. Estabrook were partners in the grain business in Marlborough. Fred W. Estabrook (a brother of Hervey) had made large advances to Hervey or to the firm and had become an accommodation party (either as maker or indorser) on the firm’s notes to the amount of $17,400. On December 8, 1913, he made a further advance to his brother Hervey in the sum of $1,200 to be used in paying some pressing obligations of the firm. Later during that month he sent his brother John to…
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