O'Connell v. City of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, by the trustee in bankruptcy of William J. Courtney and Fred J. Courtney, copartners, to recover the sum of $1,000 deposited with the defendant at the time such partners applied to the license commissioners of the defendant for a license to sell intoxicating liquors. Writ dated October 30, 1914. The James Hanley Brewing Company, a corporation, filed an intervening petition as claimant and was made a party to the action.
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Contract, by the trustee in bankruptcy of William J. Courtney and Fred J. Courtney, copartners, to recover the sum of $1,000 deposited with the defendant at the time such partners applied to the license commissioners of the defendant for a license to sell intoxicating liquors. Writ dated October 30, 1914. The James Hanley Brewing Company, a corporation, filed an intervening petition as claimant and was made a party to the action. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Callahan, J., without a jury. The material facts, including the order and the assignment mentioned below, are stated…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action brought by the trustee in bankruptcy of William J. Courtney and Fred J. Courtney, for the benefit of the bankrupt estate. The claimant contends that it is entitled to the fund in question by virtue of an order and an assignment, each of which is dated March 27,1914. The case was tried before a judge of the Superior Court, who made certain findings of fact and found for the claimant in the sum of $1,000, the amount of the fund.
*161The judge found that on March 27, 1914, the Courtneys, as copartners, made application for a license of the first class to sell intoxicating liquors in…
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