Kilmer v. Hutton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Harriet H. Kilmer, as administratrix, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 14th day of October, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of October, 1908, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The defendants are stockbrokers, and the plaintiff is the widow and administratrix of Charles E. Kilmer, deceased. Mr. Kilmer died on March 23, 1906, intestate and leaving a widow and one daughter, Catherine E. Swinnerton, his sole heir and next of kin. Mrs. Kilmer, having taken out letters of administration, obtained from a safe deposit box a certificate, Ho. 125,003, dated February 26, 1906, for 100 shares of the stock of the Hew York Central *627and Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company, in the name of Charles E. Kilmer. The customary assignment upon the back thereof was in blank, but…
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