Greene v. Corey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the members of a copartnership doing business as stockbrokers under the name of Corey, Milliken and Company. Writ dated July 7,1909. The declaration contained two counts.
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Contract against the members of a copartnership doing business as stockbrokers under the name of Corey, Milliken and Company. Writ dated July 7,1909. The declaration contained two counts. The first count alleged that the defendants held themselves out as carrying on the business of buying and selling stocks and other securities as brokers on orders from customers; that the plaintiff gave them at various times orders to buy and sell stocks on his account upon margin, and that between March 4,1907, and October 7,1908, he placed in their hands as security in connection with such orders sums of…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The plaintiff claimed that he had put certain amounts of money into the hands of the defendants upon their promise to buy and sell for him upon a margin such property and securities as he should from time to time direct, his money to be a margin for the protection of the defendants; but that the defendants, though pretending to have made these purchases and sales, and to have applied properly the plaintiff’s money as margins thereon, had not done so, and were bound to account to him for the amounts of his payments. While some other matters were nominally at any rate in issue, the real dispute…
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