Gammel v. Ernst & Ernst

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Action by Hans N. Gammel against defendants individually and as a copartnership known as Ernst & Ernst and engaged as public accountants for damages resulting to him from their alleged negligence and fraud in the examination and audit of the books and records of Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc., for the year 1944. Defendants’ motion for dismissal at the close of plaintiff’s case was granted on the grounds (1) that the evidence would not support a finding that defendants were guilty of fraud; and (2) that while the evidence might support a finding of negligence…