Rosen v. Shear’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The law is settled and is sustained by reason, that the duty of an agent is not fulfilled * * * by reporting to his principal that he has spent a round sound [sic] of money in prosecuting his employment, and then swearing to the fact in a suit to recover the sum. His duty to keep and preserve true and correct statements of account is a necessary consequence of his duly to account. Mechara on Agency, Sec. 528. An account is a detailed statement: 1 Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 53. It must be something which will furnish to the person having the right thereto, information of a character which will enable him to make some reasonable test of its accuracy and honesty, otherwise the obvious design of requiring it must be virtually fruitless.” (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Braten Apparel Corp.