Legal Opinion
In Re the Accounting of Brown
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 12, 1926PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
Vernon C. Brown & Company were stockbrokers for many years in the city of New York. Stephen H. Brown, one of the partners, died. The survivors, denying that there was any good will to be accounted for, continued the business at the old stand and in the old name. The executors acquiesced. • For so acquiescing they have been held to be at fault, and théir accounts have been surcharged accordingly. The question is whether the decree may be sustained.
The Browns, Vernon and Stephen, were brothers. They began business in 1895 with one Watson, under the name of Watson & Brown. In 1901 Watson…
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