Arnold v. Maxwell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on January-20, 1912, in substance for an accounting between partners.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on January-20, 1912, in substance for an accounting between partners. The case first was reserved by Braley, J., for determination by the full court, and, by a decision reported in 223 Mass. 47, it was decided that the defendant was chargeable in a partnership accounting on the basis of an agreement of equality as of January 20, 1908, the date of a settlement that had been made between the partners, both for certain payments made to the defendant for legal services and for the value of certain additional shares in .the stock of the North…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
In the former decision in Arnold v. Maxwell (223 Mass. 47), the case was recommitted to the master, who by an interlocutory decree was directed “to ascertain the value of the Spalding stock as of January 20, 1908.” The master admitted evidence of the earnings of the North American Chemical Company for three years succeeding January 20, 1908, (to which ruling the defendant objected) and found that the value of the stock in this company at that time was $125 a share. The defendant excepted, “because the master found and ruled . . . that the value of the stock of the North American Chemical…
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