Titcomb v. Richter
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an accounting of trust funds placed by the plaintiff’s alleged trustee in the hands of the defendants as stockbrokers and used by them in stock margin speculations, and for damages for the losses incurred thereby, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the court, Gager, J., and from the court’s refusal to set aside said judgment she appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The plaintiff in her complaint alleges that in January, 1909, she placed in the hands of one Morris certain property, and authorized and instructed him to sell it and hold the proceeds thereof as trustee for the benefit of herself, and to invest said proceeds in legal and proper investments as trustee aforesaid; that shortly thereafter Morris sold the property as authorized and instructed by her and received therefor about $25,000; that he deposited a portion of this money with the defendants and had numerous transactions with them, the details of which are unknown to her,” except that they…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- National Bank v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Shaw v. SpencerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Union Stock Yards Bank v. GillespieSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Skiff v. StoddardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Harris v. City of PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
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