Lazenby v. Henderson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on October 19, 1916, by the trustee in bankruptcy of Trowbridge Piano Company against Franklin C. Henderson, Franklin C. Henderson Company, Melbourn A. Marks and Frederick M. Kilmer, for an accounting by the first two defendants as to profits realized by them from sales of pianos purchased at unwarrantably low prices from the Trowbridge Piano Company, of which the defendant Henderson was alleged to…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on October 19, 1916, by the trustee in bankruptcy of Trowbridge Piano Company against Franklin C. Henderson, Franklin C. Henderson Company, Melbourn A. Marks and Frederick M. Kilmer, for an accounting by the first two defendants as to profits realized by them from sales of pianos purchased at unwarrantably low prices from the Trowbridge Piano Company, of which the defendant Henderson was alleged to have been elected a director, between January 29, 1915, and November 20, 1915, when that corporation made an assignment…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff is trustee in bankruptcy of the Trowbridge Piano Company, a Massachusetts manufacturing corporation. He seeks to recover, for the benefit of creditors, profits received by the defendants F. C. Henderson and F. C. Henderson Company (hereinafter referred to as the defendants) from the resale of pianos which the Henderson company bought from the Trowbridge company while Henderson was a director of the latter company. The case is here on the appeal of the defendants from a final decree in favor of the plaintiff.
The defendant Franklin C. Henderson Company is a jobber and distributor…
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