Highland Trust Co. v. Slotnick

The plaintiff, by trustee writ, brought an action in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston against the defendant Slotnick in which various tenants of Slotnick were summoned as trustees. After a hearing on the motion of the plaintiff to charge William Endicott Clapp, one of the trustees summoned under the writ, on his answer, the trial judge found that he was chargeable. The action was ripe for judgment against the principal defendant and, all parties having agreed that the liability of the other trustees should be determined in accordance with the decision of the court with respect to the…