Page v. . Shainwald
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 25, 1900, upon an order which reversed an order of the trial court setting aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff and granting a new trial and directed judgment for plaintiff upon such verdict.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 25, 1900, upon an order which reversed an order of the trial court setting aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff and granting a new trial and directed judgment for plaintiff upon such verdict. Prior to September 3,1895, the defendant, an officer of the Hoffman Machine Company, tried to persuade the plaintiff to purchase stock in that company, but his efforts proving unsuccessful he finally said to plaintiff: “ Page, I want you to be in that company. I know it is a good thing. I…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, Ch. J.
The legal effect of the agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant was to require the defendant, if requested so to do by the plaintiff on the first day of January, 1898, to take plaintiff’s stock in the Hoffman Machine Co. at the price named therein. The plaintiff failed to tender his stock and make the request on the day named, but did so on the third of January. As the first day of January was a holiday and the second came on Sunday, the plaintiff insists that his tender and request were in time. But the difficulty with his contention is that legal holidays have not…
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