Davidge v. Guardian Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by tbe defendant, the Guardian Trust Company of R ew York, from a judgment, of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 19th day of July, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of September, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. '
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J. :
The action is brought to recover damages caused, by the false representation of one of the officers" -of defendant company, which induced the purchase by the plaintiff of. ten certain bonds of the *79Metropolitan Beal Estate Improvement Company. The representation claimed to have been falsely and fraudulently made was that the mortgage executed to secure said bonds was a first mortgage upon the property upon which it was a lien. ■ The face value of the bonds was $5,000; the verdict of the jury was $4,500. By stipulation that was afterwards reduced to $4,265.40, being the amount…
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