Orvis v. Jackson

This suit in equity, brought under the provisions of G. L. c. 156, §§ 36, 38, by creditors of P. T. Jackson Company (a Massachusetts corporation that was adjudicated a bankrupt on August 19, 1930), is to enforce the individual liability of certain of its directors who signed a certificate of condition, alleged by the plaintiffs to be false in a material representation, and which the defendants knew, or upon reasonable examination could have known, to be false.

The bill alleges that the P. T. Jackson Company is indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $5,782.01, with interest thereon, according…