Bystrom v. Villard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ernst Bystrom, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the respondent, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of October, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of October, 1915, denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The action is for damages for false representations whereby the plaintiff was induced, as he alleges, to purchase stock in a mining company which proved to be valueless.
The respondent who made the representations was a director and the president of the corporation. Although the record of the trial is quite a long one there is, in the end, little substantial dispute as to the facts. The story is not an unfamiliar one.
The Ocean Wave Mining Company was organized to operate a mining property in Mexico. The respondent Villard acquired *435stock therein and became its president and one of its…
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