Legal Opinion

Haupt v. Ames

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1898PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, Paid E. Ames, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the .office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 15th day of October, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, sustaining the plaintiff’s demurrer to a counterclaim set up in the answer of the defendant, Paul K. Ames.

1Opinion of the Court

Woodward, J.:

The plaintiff alleges as a cause of action that the defendant made to him certain specific statements in reference to the affairs of , the Columbian Pharmacal Company, a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Connecticut, for the purpose of inducing this plaintiff to invest his money in the stock and bonds of the said company ; that, relying, upon these statements and believing them to be true, the plaintiff did purchase five of the bonds of the said company, together with fifty shares of . the stock, paying therefor $3,000. in cash, and agreeing to pay $625 on the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Carpenter v. . Manhattan Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1883
  2. Byxbie v. . WoodNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
  3. People of State of N.Y. v. . DennisonNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
  4. Smith v. . HallNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
  5. Allen v. AddingtonNew York Supreme Court · 1831

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Haupt v. AmesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
  2. Lundine v. CallaghanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  3. Lundine v. CallaghanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  4. Uvalde Asphalt Paving Co. v. Morgan Contracting Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
  5. Wilcock v. HeermanceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898

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