Ellis v. Small

This is a bill in equity by the trustees in bankruptcy of the J. G. Small Company, a Massachusetts corpora*148tion, to compel the assignment to them by the defendant Small of a lease of certain premises on Washington Street in Boston, where the corporation was carrying on business when it was adjudged bankrupt, and where it had been carrying on business since its incorporation a little more than a year before. The bill also contained a prayer that the defendant Small be decreed to hold the lease in trust for the corporation or for the plaintiffs as receivers of its property. The case was sent to…