Runkle v. Burrage
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on September 28, 1903, and April 18,1905, respectively, and afterwards repeatedly amended, seeking a rescission of certain agreements under which the plaintiff and persons whose claims were assigned to him placed money in the hands of the defendants for investment, and for an accounting as to such money. The cases were referred to James D. Colt, Esquire, as master and were heard together by him.
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Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on September 28, 1903, and April 18,1905, respectively, and afterwards repeatedly amended, seeking a rescission of certain agreements under which the plaintiff and persons whose claims were assigned to him placed money in the hands of the defendants for investment, and for an accounting as to such money. The cases were referred to James D. Colt, Esquire, as master and were heard together by him. The material facts reported by him are stated in the opinion. The cases were heard on exceptions to the master’s report…
1Opinion of the CourtKeowlton, C. J.
These are two suits in equity brought against Albert C. Burrage, his brother Charles D. Barrage and Thomas W. Lawson, for an accounting, and to recover moneys subscribed by the plaintiff and others towards an enterprise in. the sale or management of mining properties alleged to have been undertaken by the defendants. The first suit was brought to recover money subscribed by the plaintiff personally, and the second to recover money subscribed by others who have assigned their interests to the plaintiff. The subscriptions represented in the two suits amount in the aggregate to $406,125, which…
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