Able v. Equitable Life Assur. Society of the United States

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

Since the parties in the record style themselves plaintiff and defendants — the one plaintiff-respondent, the others defendants-appellants — it will simplify matters if we designate them plaintiff and defendants in this opinion.

The action is founded upon allegations of fraud and deceit praticed on the plaintiff by the defendants.

The burden of the complaint is: That plaintiff was more than twenty years in the employ of the defendant Standard Oil Company at Columbia. In accordance with its custom, this defendant carried a plan of…