Barnes v. Long Island Real Estate Exchange & Investment Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-Appeals from Special Term. Action by Albert J. Barnes against the Long Island Real Estate Exchange & Investment Company and the People’s Trust Company. From the judgment rendered, plaintiff and defendant People’s Trust Company prosecute cross-appeals. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The plaintiff in this action purchased certain real estate, consisting of six lots at Ridgewood Heights, on the 6th day of September, 1892, from the Long Island Real Estate Exchange & Investment Company, the price agreed upon being $4,400. The plaintiff was a steward employed upon the American Line of steamers, plying between the United States and England; and the officers of the investment company were Ignatz Martin, president; Sydney H. Carr, secretary; Meyer Hellman, treasurer (this office, it appears, being largely nominal); and C. K. Hoorning, a director, who, in the *952absence of the…
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