Ridgely v. Keene
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Talbot J. Taylor and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 27th day of May, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of June, 1908, denying the said defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
Courts should refuse to aid the enforcement of contracts like that in suit.
The plaintiff alleges in his complaint that for some years prior to the transaction in suit he had “been engaged in the business of writing circular letters, known as 1 Ridgely’s Financial Forecasts,’ in which he gives (sic) advice and information to his clients as to the value of securities dealt in on the New York Stock Exchange, * * *; that by furnishing accurate and reliable information and advice, and by protecting the interests of his clients and customers he had on the 5th day of August, 1902, a…
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