Essex Trust Co. v. Enwright
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill m equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 3, 1911, by the trustee under a mortgage made to secure the bonds of the Lynn Publishing Company, a corporation, against Frederick W. Enwright and the Lynn Publishing Company, to enjoin the defendant Enwright, as lessee under a lease from the International Trust Company, from evicting the plaintiff or the Lynn Publishing Company from certain premises on Willow Street in Lynn, where a newspaper called the Lynn Evening…
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Bill m equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 3, 1911, by the trustee under a mortgage made to secure the bonds of the Lynn Publishing Company, a corporation, against Frederick W. Enwright and the Lynn Publishing Company, to enjoin the defendant Enwright, as lessee under a lease from the International Trust Company, from evicting the plaintiff or the Lynn Publishing Company from certain premises on Willow Street in Lynn, where a newspaper called the Lynn Evening News was published by the plaintiff as trustee, and to have the defendant Enwright declared a constructive trustee holding…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The question on which the decision in this case depends is this: In case a reporter on a newspaper in the course or by reason of his employment learns that the premises on which the business of publishing the paper is conducted are of peculiar value to his employer or one carrying on his business, has he the right without his employer’s knowledge to take a lease of the premises and hold them as his own to the injury of his employer’s property ?
The case comes before us on a report without the evidence. The statement in the report of the facts of the case is in one or more material points…
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