Burroughs Corporation records. Burroughs Adding Machine Company court documentation.

Burroughs was in many court cases, some appealed and some not. Most of the legal court records were not kept, although there does exist information on Laura Miller Boyer v. Standish Backus (and other defendants).

Laura Miller Boyer was the daughter-in-law of Joseph Boyer. She was the legatee under the will of her husband Myron L. Boyer. Joseph Boyer had set up a trust specifically for Myron, and also made certain monthly payments to him. After her husband's death in 1929, Laura Miller Boyer wished to see documentation on how much money her father-in-law had set aside for Myron, but that information was in the estate of Joseph Boyer, who had died in 1930.

Much of the money left Myron by his father was in the form of trusteeships, and after Joseph Boyer's death, the remaining trustees felt this money should revert back to the father's estate, instead of being awarded to Myron's wife Laura. Such was the basis of the dispute by Standish Backus, other members of the Detroit Trust Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and other descendants of Joseph Boyer. These other family members included Ruby Boyer Miller, Lotta B. (Boyer) Backus, Pearl S. Candler, Gertrude Boyer Chase, and Frank Boyer (deceased).