Fay v. Corbett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on November 17, 1914, seeking to compel the return to the individual plaintiffs of certain shares of the stock of the plaintiff the Carleton and Hovey Company, alleged to have been transferred to the defendant under the provisions of an oral contract as to the financing of that corporation, which the defendants were alleged to have broken. The suit was referred to a master under a rule described in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on November 17, 1914, seeking to compel the return to the individual plaintiffs of certain shares of the stock of the plaintiff the Carleton and Hovey Company, alleged to have been transferred to the defendant under the provisions of an oral contract as to the financing of that corporation, which the defendants were alleged to have broken. The suit was referred to a master under a rule described in the opinion. The agreement in writing (“Exhibit A”) of July 23, 1904, was as follows, the testimonium clause and signatures being omitted:…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is a bill in equity wherein the plaintiffs seek to have returned to them certain shares of preferred and common stock of the Carleton and Hovey Company, — one of the plaintiffs named in the bill, — which stock was issued to the defendant Corbett and to John C. Burke, now deceased.
The plaintiffs also seek to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by reason of the failure of Burke and Corbett (hereinafter referred to as the defendants) to perform the terms of an alleged oral agreement. The Lowell Trust Company, as pledgee of the stock delivered to Burke, also is joined as a…
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