Legal Opinion
Piper v. Childs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 1, 1935PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummtjs, J.
These are two actions of tort for deceit. The defendants were officers and substantial stockholders of a corporation named Childs, Jeffries & Company, Inc., which was in business as a broker and investment banker. The plaintiff, in January, 1929, having been employed for about a year as sales manager for the corporation, bought thirty-six shares of its stock at $550 a share. The defendants represented to him that its liquidating value was $551.55 a share. He did not see the books, and the defendants by their conduct discouraged him from asking to see them. The judge, sitting without a jury,…
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