Strout v. United Shoe Machinery Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 29, 1902, by individual stockholders of the Goddu Sons Metal Fastening Company, a Maine corporation, against the United Shoe Machinery Company and certain stockholders, officers and directors of the Goddu Sons Metal Fastening Company to compel an accounting as to certain alleged wrongdoings in the management and conduct of the business and property of the Goddu Company.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 29, 1902, by individual stockholders of the Goddu Sons Metal Fastening Company, a Maine corporation, against the United Shoe Machinery Company and certain stockholders, officers and directors of the Goddu Sons Metal Fastening Company to compel an accounting as to certain alleged wrongdoings in the management and conduct of the business and property of the Goddu Company. Demurrers to the original bill were sustained on April 6, 1903. On April 18, 1905, the plaintiffs were allowed to file a substitute bill, to which the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This case now comes before us on. a report from a judge of the Superior Court who, after the decision in 209 Mass. 539, ordering that the bill be dismissed, allowed a motion substituting Charles A. Strout, trustee of the Goddu Sons Metal Fastening Company, as the plaintiff and an amended bill of complaint. The case has been elaborately and ably argued in behalf of the defendants, but in the view we take the points upon which the decision hinges lie within narrow compass.
The defendants challenge the power of the court to allow such an amendment. The power of the court in this regard is very…
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