Farrar v. Pillsbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 3, 1911, and afterwards amended, for an accounting. In the Superior Court, the suit was referred to a master. Material facts found by the master are described in the opinion. No exceptions to the report were filed by either party.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 3, 1911, and afterwards amended, for an accounting. In the Superior Court, the suit was referred to a master. Material facts found by the master are described in the opinion. No exceptions to the report were filed by either party. By order of Wait, J., there were entered an interlocutory decree confirming the master’s report on July 23, 1920, and on April 23, 1921, a final decree adjudging • that the defendant owed to the plaintiff $5,000 as of October 5, 1910, that he be ordered to pay to the plaintiff $8,164.96 and that execution issue…
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
No exceptions were taken to the master’s report. In the absence of the evidence we must accept the facts as found by him. Whether the final decree lawfully could be entered thereon is the only question before us. E. W. Burt & Co. Inc. v. Coes & Young Co. 212 Mass. 134.
*472The following material facts were found by the master. In June, 1909, the plaintiff owned or controlled all the capital stock of the Farrar Lumber Company, the only asset of which was a. lumber mill, located at Marshall’s Island, in Maine, worth from $6,000 to $6,500 and subject to a mortgage of $1,500. He owned also twelve…
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- E. W. Burt & Co. v. Coes & Young Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912