Ridgely v. Talbot J. Taylor & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, A. E. Ridgely, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 5th day of June, 1907, setting aside the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff and granting the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Dissent
Gaynor, J. (dissenting):
This case has been here twice before (107 App. Div. 265 ; 118 id. 10), but it must now be decided on the present record, and on questions which have not heretofore been disposed of. It should have been dismissed on the last trial. It needs to be reduced to precision.
Tiie plaintiff is a Wall street man and an expert in stock speculation. He not only speculates in stocks himself, but induces others to do so under his tutilage and advice. Among much else of the same kind he has written a book called “ The Study and Science of Stock Speculation”, which lias already passed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ridgely v. Talbot J. Taylor & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905