Forster, Waterbury & Co. v. Webster Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill for an Accounting.—Appeal from an interlocutory order of the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the court.
A court of equity has jurisdiction to entertain a bill for an accounting where there are mutual accounts between the plaintiff and defendant and also where the accounts are all on one side, but there are circumstances of great complication or difficulty in the way of adequate relief at law and where also fiduciary relations exist between the parties and a duty rests upon the defendant to render an account. 3d Pomeroy’s Eq. Jurisprudence, Sec. 1421; Gleason & Bailey Mfg. Co. v. Hoffman, 168 Ill. 25-28.
Where an account is so…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gleason & Bailey Manufacturing Co. v. HoffmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
3Cited by4 opinions
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