Case Name: Joseph Dondero & a. v. Mary Ferranti
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1939-01-03
Citations: 90 N.H. 554
Docket Number: No. 3043
Parties: Joseph Dondero & a. v. Mary Ferranti.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 90
Pages: 554–554

Head Matter:
Strafford,
Jan. 3, 1939.
No. 3043.
Joseph Dondero & a. v. Mary Ferranti.
Hughes & Burns, by brief, for the plaintiffs.
Thomas J. McGreal and Frank E. Blackburn, by brief, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is a proceeding in which a common-law action
of tort for embezzling funds and securities has been amended by a bill in equity for an accounting. The court's finding that justice required the allowance of the amendment is not to be set aside merely because the defendant thereby lost her right to a jury trial of the action at law. A suit for an accounting has advantages over an action at law, when, as claimed here, an accounting by the defendant is necessary to ascertain the extent of her indebtedness. Equity does not lose its jurisdiction over accounting and discovery by reason of the common law's adoption of equitable principles. Berry v. Whidden, 62 N. H. 473, 476.
Exceptions overruled.