Tracy v. Ginzberg
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed April 11,1904, praying that the defendant be ordered to account to the plaintiff for the sum of $8,000, received from one O’Hearn by the defendant as trustee in bankruptcy of the estates of Herman O. Long and Frank A. Sanderson, who under the firm name of Long and Sanderson carried on a hotel at No. 24 on Avery Street in Boston, as the proceeds of an alleged sale by the defendant to O’Hearn of two liquor licenses held by Long and Sanderson from the…
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Bill in equity, filed April 11,1904, praying that the defendant be ordered to account to the plaintiff for the sum of $8,000, received from one O’Hearn by the defendant as trustee in bankruptcy of the estates of Herman O. Long and Frank A. Sanderson, who under the firm name of Long and Sanderson carried on a hotel at No. 24 on Avery Street in Boston, as the proceeds of an alleged sale by the defendant to O’Hearn of two liquor licenses held by Long and Sanderson from the police commissioners of the city of Boston. The case was heard by Loring, J., who ordered that the bill be dismissed, with…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The money which the plaintiff seeks to recover was received by the defendant as a trustee in bankruptcy,- on account of a privilege which the board of police commissioners of Boston allowed to the bankrupts, as the holders of two liquor licenses which were in force at the commencement of the proceedings in bankruptcy. The plaintiff contends that he is entitled to the money as the assignee of the interest of the bankrupts in the licenses, and as a joint licensee with them, his *261name being joined with theirs in the licenses, not because he was a partner in the business which they were…
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