Fricke v. Weber

ALLÉN, Circuit Judge.

In an action for accounting and equitable relief appellant was ordered to pay to appellee $10,000, the face value of certain Liberty Bonds found to have been held in trust by appellant for appellee, together with interest on the principal sum. The case arises out of the following facts:

The appellee is the son of Mrs. Mary Weber, deceased, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, who some time early in 1933 employed appellant, who had had active accounting experience and had practiced law in Cleveland since 1921, as her attorney and confidential adviser. Mrs. Weber, then a *738woman of…