Primeau v. Granfield
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by Paul A. Primeau against Horace Granfield, continued after his death by Olive U. Granfield, his executrix. Decree for complainant, and both parties appeal.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by Paul A. Primeau against Horace Granfield, continued after his death by Olive U. Granfield, his executrix. Decree for complainant, and both parties appeal. The plaintiff sued the defendant 1 charging, in substance, that he, living in the East, had remitted from time to time to the defendant in Colorado for investment in mining shares and properties, different sums of money; that the remití anees were made under circumstances which created a fiduciary relationship between the parties;…
1Opinion of the CourtNoyes, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It is a fundamental principle of equity jurisprudence that a court of equity will exercise its extraordinary powers only for the enforcement of the requirements of conscience, and in enforcing them it demands conscientiousness in the parties. He that cometh into equity must have clean hands. He that hath committed iniquity shall not have equity. He that hath engaged in a fraudulent enterprise cannot complain that his associate in fraud has not kept the faith.
Interwoven with these elementary equitable principles are those co; - siderations of public…
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