Homrich v. Robinson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 17 and amended on October 27, 1914, alleging that the plaintiff was a jeweller having his place of business in Huntington in the State of West Virginia and that Lawrence Robinson (one of the original defendants since deceased) and the defendant Duddy there stole fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry from the plaintiff, that they afterwards were arrested in Boston where they were held to await trial as violators of the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 17 and amended on October 27, 1914, alleging that the plaintiff was a jeweller having his place of business in Huntington in the State of West Virginia and that Lawrence Robinson (one of the original defendants since deceased) and the defendant Duddy there stole fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry from the plaintiff, that they afterwards were arrested in Boston where they were held to await trial as violators of the laws of this Commonwealth, that when they were arrested they had in their possession seven diamonds described in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The pleas to the jurisdiction having been waived at the argument, the question is whether the bill states a case for equitable relief.
It is apparent from the essential allegations, that the plaintiff’s property, consisting of rings with diamond settings, was feloniously appropriated at his place of business in another State by the defendant Robinson’s intestate and the defendant Duddy, who after the theft were apprehended and held in custody in this Commonwealth, when the diamonds which they had removed from the rings were found among their effects, as well as moneys alleged to have been…
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