Putnam patriot., 1929-12-12
Stock Attached

Stock Attached
 These shares of stock were attach ed when this suit was brought.
 Michael Moriarty. my father, who died in January 1907, at the age of seventy-three. had come to Putnam in May 1863. from Granitevile, R. l., and. with two partners, Legg & Whitehead. had bought the little stone mill which is now a part of the plant of the Waterman Worsted Co.
 Their business as manufacturers Of wooden goods had been successful and in 1866 Moriarty had purchased the interests of his partners and contin- ued the business alone. In that year he had constructed a brick addition to the stone mill as it stands today, and also built a brick boiler house. the tall brick chimney to the mill. an office building on the site now occu- pied by the brick storehouse of the Putnam Woolen Co.,. the houses on Pigeon Hill" and two more on Pom fret street immediately east of "Pi- geon Hill"
 Tn June 1868 he had purchased from Edmund Wilkinson the latters residence on the Woodstock road (now Church street. which is now oc- cupied by Silas NJ. Wheeloek. The of- fee building was moved to Ring street some years ago and was oe- cupied as a dwelling house by F. J. Daniels for a number of years.
 The amount involved in this suit was Si12,353.s1. which Moriarty claimed was the balance due him from Mason under a certain contract which he and Mason had entered in- to on January l, 1869.
 The contract provided, among other things, that Mason should furnish Moriarty with as much stock and material as he could manufacture in- to cassimeres at his mill in Putnam, 1 Conn. Moriarty was to determine the style and kind of cassimeres and the 1 finished goods were to be delivered, to the order of Mason, to such com l mission houses in New York and other l places as the parties might agree up- 1 on.
 i Mason was to receive seven per cent annually, with quarterly rests, for the money or materials which he advanced. and. for his own benefit, three per cent additional on the net amount received from the sale of the ] goods. It was further agreed that if the net and sales of said goods were insufficient to pay Mason his seven per cent interest and three per cent commission. and all other charges, then Moriarty was to pay to him the amount of such deficiency on demand with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum as aforesaid
 Left Handed Partnership
 It will be seen from this contract that the arrangement was a cort of a left handed partnership. in which Mason was to share in the profits and Moriarty was 10 make up all the loss es. Clearly all the Shylocks were not dead on January 1, 1869.
 The contract could be terminated by either party giving to the other three months notice in writing of his intention to terminate the same. The ] contract remained in force until the l first day of April 1875. when, by mutual agreement, the business came to q close.
 The commission house to which Moriarty shipped his cassimeres was ! that of Whittemore. Peet, Post & Go. which was located in the New York Life Insurance Co.'S building at Broadway and Leonard street, New York City.
 Counsel for Moriarty were Har- rison Johnson, well known Putnam lawyer, the father of Erie H. John- son, and Jeremah Halsey of Norwich. Mir. Halsey was one of the ablest lawyers that has ever honored the state of Connecticut The late Henry D. White, who was member of the bar of New Haven County for forty years, once told me that the three greatest lawyers that the state of Connecticut had ever produced were Richard D. Hubbard of Hartford, John K, Beach of New Haven and Jer- emiah Halsey of Norwich. That opin- ion was concurred in by the late Abiel