Mudge v. Mitchell Hutchins & Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

On September 25, 1931 plaintiffs Bessie S. Mudge, Anna Mudge and Hugh U. Mudge, filed a bill in equity against Mitchell Hutchins and Company, Inc., and the individual defendants who by succession continued the stock brokerage and investment business of the corporation as copartners doing business as Mitchell Hutch-ins and Company, seeking an accounting for the alleged conversion of certain shares of the capital stock of the New York Trust Company which belonged to the estate of their mother, of which they were beneficiaries. After…