Quincey v. Young
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by defendants from a judgment of this court entered on the report of a referee. The action was brought to recover for moneys advanced, brokers’ commissions, &e., due the plaintiff under the following facts as found by the referee: In April, 1870, Young and Woodward employed the firm of Heath & Co., composed of William Heath and the plaintiff, to buy and sell for their account the stock of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, the commission to be…
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Appeal by defendants from a judgment of this court entered on the report of a referee. The action was brought to recover for moneys advanced, brokers’ commissions, &e., due the plaintiff under the following facts as found by the referee: In April, 1870, Young and Woodward employed the firm of Heath & Co., composed of William Heath and the plaintiff, to buy and sell for their account the stock of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, the commission to be one-thirty-seeond of one per cent, on the par value. Heath & Go. bought and sold said stock during April and up to May 17th, on…
1Opinion of the CourtJ. F. Daly, J.
There was no error committed by the referee in admitting or rejecting evidence which would warrant a reversal of this judgment. We are referred by appellants to the exceptions taken by them to the referee’s rulings, at folios 571, 649-51, and 1264-67 of the case.
*331As to the first: The evidence was not material, and did not influence or affect in any respect the judgment or decision of the referee, so far as appears from his opinion, and that opinion may be referred to to ascertain whether it did or did not, since the defendants rely on it to show on what ground he really did decide the case.…
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