North Shore Blue Book, Inc. v. Burlen

This case is before us on exceptions by both the plaintiff and the defendant. The plaintiff’s declaration is in tort or contract. The answer is a general denial alleging attachment of the goods by trustee process, estoppel and other defences not now material.

The plaintiff is a corporation engaged in publishing a social register. Frank C. Hyde, its president, brought certain sheets to the defendants for binding, and told Alfred Burlen, a member of the defendant firm, that the sheets were his and did not belong to the plaintiff and the job was to be done for him. July 28, 1923, Hyde wrote the…