Legal Opinion

Jordan Marsh Co. v. Hale

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided December 29, 1914PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from an order of the Superior Court charging the Old Colony Trust Company, a corporation, as trustee in the above entitled case.

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Appeal from an order of the Superior Court charging the Old Colony Trust Company, a corporation, as trustee in the above entitled case. The answer of the alleged trustee to the writ was as follows: “And now L. D. Seaver, Cashier of the Old Colony Trust Company, the corporation summoned as Trustee for the principal defendants in the above entitled action, appears and makes answer that at the time of the service of the plaintiff’s writ upon said Company it had not in its possession any goods, effects or credits in the names of either Walter S. Hale or Harriett C. Hale, or both, and prays that…

1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.

The only question in this case is whether the Old Colony Trust Company is to be charged as trustee of Walter S. Hale, one of the principal defendants. The trustee, in answer to interrogatories filed by the plaintiff, stated that at the time of the service of the writ there were no accounts on its books in the name of either of the principal defendants. In further answer to interrogatories the trustee stated that at the time of the service of the writ upon it there was an account upon its books in the name of “Walter S. Hale, Agent,” and that this account was drawn upon by checks signed…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Terry v. SissonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
  2. Randall v. WayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Meteor Products Co. v. Société d'Electro-Chemie et d'Electro-MétallurgieMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
  2. Eastern Fur & Skin Co. v. SternfeldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
  3. Dailey v. DohertyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
  4. Rubin v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2011
  5. Connelly v. Dionne Trucking, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920

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