Clark v. State Street Trust Co.

The plaintiffs, as trustees under a declaration of trust created in 1919 under the name Boston Mexican Petroleum Trustees, bring this bill to recover money deposited by .their assignors with the State Street Trust Company. The defendant Adams, by cross bill against the plaintiffs and State Street Trust Company, seeks to recover the same money. The present controversy grows out of attempts by certain stockholders of the Boston Mexican *144Leasing Company, an oil corporation, to sell their stock to Adams, who was attempting to buy that stock because he owned a new process for cracking oil called…