Willard v. White
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from judgment on report of referee. Action by Edward K. Willard and others, composing the firm of E. K. Willard & Co., against Edward H. Westcott and Alfred Wilkinson, their assignees, James 8. Crouse, Hamilton S. White, Giles Everson, Lucius Moses, and others, brought to determine the rights to stocks in the possession of plaintiffs. The action was referred, and from the judgment entered upon the report of the referee defendants White, Everson, and Moses appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, P. J.
The evidence in this case showed that' the plaintiffs, for many years prior to the 11th of December, 1884, had been stock-brokers, doing business in Hew York under the firm name of E. K. Willard & Co., and that the defendants Westcott and Wilkinson were at the time of the transactions hereinafter mentioned, and for some time previous thereto had been, copartners and also stock-brokers, doing business at Syracuse, H. Y„ under the firm name of Westcott & Co. Westcott & Co. had been in the habit of receiving from their customers in or about Syracuse orders for the purchase of stocks. These…
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