Calhoun v. Commonwealth Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John C. Calhoun, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 16th day of October, 1907.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott,. J.:
The plaintiff appeals from an order suppressing the depositions of ■two witnesses who were examined in England upon ah open commission.. One of the witnesses has since been re-examined, and the appeal, therefore, relates only to the deposition of one William Trotter. The plaintiff sues for $825,000 damages. He alleges that the defendant" had been given possession" and control and the exclusive right to sell $4,250,000 of the bonds of the United States Shipbuilding Company, and' also the right, as an inducemént-to said'sale, to give shares of the preferred and common stock of said…
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