Kennebec Housing Co. v. Barton

These actions are based upon five contracts of the defendants individually to pay for shares of stock in the plaintiff corporation; they were before us on a former occasion (122 Maine, 374), presented upon exceptions by defendants to a ruling accepting the report of a referee who had found for the plaintiff, basing his findings upon the issue of fraud and deceit. The cases are now presented to us upon a report of all the evidence submitted to the referee, for such final judgment as the law and the evidence require.

The pleadings of each defendant present eight distinct defenses, stated as…