Pitman v. J. C. Pitman & Sons, Inc.

The purpose of this bill for declaratory relief is to determine the effect of a general release under seal dated November 10, 1944 (which ran from the defendant to the plaintiff), upon an agreement dated May 25, 1932, to which they were parties. The agreement recited that the defendant had acquired all the property and assets of the partnership composed of the plaintiff and John C. Pitman and which did business as John C. & James F. Pitman; that the defendant-had also acquired the entire assets of A. & E. Pitman Manufacturing Co., Inc., a corporation doing business in Lynn, Massachusetts, of…