Fox v. Patterson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a court of equity, in a suit for an accounting.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a court of equity, in a suit for an accounting. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District awarding appellee, Louise Hillard Patterson, on an accounting between her and the appellant, Edmund K. Eox, $29,964.26, with interest from the 9th day of September, 1913, and directing appellant to surrender to appellee certain shares of stock. The appellant is a real estate agent trading as A. E. Eox Company.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Robb
It is first objected that the court erred in permitting the appellee to amend her bill and the appellant to make answer thereto, and at the same time denying to appellant the right to make further proof. In her original bill Mrs. Patterson averred that Fox had been guilty of deceit as her agent, and the evidence tended to support the averment. The evidence that Fox was interested in the California was not inconsistent with the averments of the bill, but rather tended to support term. This evidence was met, so far as it was possible to be met, by Fox, and the case was fully argued before the…
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