National Telephone Manufacturing Co. v. Du Bois
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court, against John E. Du Bois, Edward D. Van Tassel, and Alexander R. Van Tassel, to reach and apply, under Pub. Sts. c. 151, § 2, and St. 1884, c. 285, to the payment of the defendant Du Bois’s debt to the plaintiff the interest of Du Bois in a partnership composed of himself and the other defendants. A decree was entered for the plaintiff; and the defendants appealed to this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The plaintiff in this ease is a New Hampshire
corporation with a place of business in Boston whose claim had not been reduced to judgment, and does not relate to a contract made in this State. The claim is for labor, materials, and disbursements performed, furnished, and made in the State of Pennsylvania. The principal defendant is a resident of Pennsylvania, with no property here except his interest as partner in a firm whose property, assets, books, vouchers, papers, and accounts are all with some few exceptions in Du Bois in the State of Pennsylvania, where its business chiefly is carried…
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