Burhorn v. Lockwood
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry B. Lockwood and others, as partners composing the firm of Lockwood, Hurd & Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of January, 1901, upon the report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The action is brought to recover damages for an unauthorized sale of stock. The appellants were stockbrokers, and on the 3d day of April, 1899, pursuant to an order from respondent, they purchased on his account 100 shares of stock known as Federal Steel at seventy-four per cent or for $7,400, which, with the exception of $800 received from the respondent, the appellants advanced. The brokers also received from the respondent $250 on April fifth, the same amount-on April sixth, and $1,452 on April eleventh. On the thirteenth of May thereafter, during the panic following the death *302…
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