Lee v. Fisk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on June 29,1914, by certain holders of the preferred stock of the Knox Automobile Company, a corporation, against the administrators of the estate of Alfred N. Mayo, who was the treasurer and a director of that corporation and who, it was alleged, maliciously induced the corporation to break its contracts with the plaintiffs in regard to the payment of dividends on its preferred stock and in regard to the redemption of their stock.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on June 29,1914, by certain holders of the preferred stock of the Knox Automobile Company, a corporation, against the administrators of the estate of Alfred N. Mayo, who was the treasurer and a director of that corporation and who, it was alleged, maliciously induced the corporation to break its contracts with the plaintiffs in regard to the payment of dividends on its preferred stock and in regard to the redemption of their stock. The bill prayed for an accounting of the funds and property of the Knox Automobile Company that were applicable as net…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This suit, like the action at law, supra, 80, between the same parties, is before this court upon report following an interlocutory decree sustaining a demurrer to the bill. The bill asks for no relief peculiar to courts of equity, but merely seeks for compensation in damages for the reason, as stated in the plaintiffs’ brief, that “The .defendants’ intestate, Mayo, maliciously and without justifiable cause induced the Knox Company to break its contract with the plaintiffs both in respect to the payment of dividends and to the redemption or repurchase of their stock pro rata.”
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