Gordon v. Knott
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity for an accounting, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk, May 14, 1901. At the hearing, which was before Morton, J., the evidence was taken by a commissioner, and it appeared that, from the year 1884 to October 28, 1896, the plaintiff was engaged in business in London, England, dealing largely in goods made by the defendant Boston Rubber Shoe Company, which goods, during the earlier part of the period, it sold outright to him, and,…
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Bill in equity for an accounting, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk, May 14, 1901. At the hearing, which was before Morton, J., the evidence was taken by a commissioner, and it appeared that, from the year 1884 to October 28, 1896, the plaintiff was engaged in business in London, England, dealing largely in goods made by the defendant Boston Rubber Shoe Company, which goods, during the earlier part of the period, it sold outright to him, and, during the latter part of the period, consigned to him to be paid for after he had sold them. The course of dealing between…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The principal question argued in this case is whether the finding made by the single justice, “ that the plaintiff was the owner of something which the parties called a good will,” and that the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, hereinafter called the defendant, agreed to pay the plaintiff for this quasi good will, should be reversed. Under the recognized rule, it is to be sustained unless upon the evidence reported it was clearly wrong. Elliott v. Baker, 194 Mass. 518. Lindsey, v. Bird, 193 Mass. 200.
There is great force in the defendant’s contention that, as the business which the plaintiff was…
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