Hibbs v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Alexander Brown and others, from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of June, 1905, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 3d day of March, 1905, for the possession of three interest coupons for twenty dollars each, which…
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Appeal by the defendants, Alexander Brown and others, from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of June, 1905, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 3d day of March, 1905, for the possession of three interest coupons for twenty dollars each, which were formerly attached to. collateral trust gold bond No. 7,800, for $1,000, payable in fifty years from date of issue,…
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action to recover the coupons. _ Both parties claim -title to the bonds and coupons. The decision of the question depends upon whether or not they are negotiable. In January, 1902, the plaintiff was conducting a banking and brokerage business at Wash*216ington, D. C., and owned and held in the safé deposit vault in his banking house, this bond with the coupons, then unmatured, attached thereto. , The evidence indicates that they were removed without his consent or knowledge by some person whose, identity has not. been discovered; that on April 23,1902, the bond, with tfie…
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