Boylston Coal Co. v. Rautenbush

On July 6, 1923, the complainant, Boylston Coal Company, a corporation, filed a bill of complaint in the superior court for an injunction to prevent the defendants, David T. Rautenbush and Harold J. Crowe (whose proper name was Bernard H. Brahm), partners doing business as the Supreme Coal Company, from wrongfully appropriating certain confidential information of the complainant as a mail order coal dealer, which had been obtained by Rautenbush while an employee of the complainant.

The bill also prayed for an accounting for unfair trade. Rautenbush filed an answer and an amended answer, and…