Strong v. Repide
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR, TO AND APPEAL PROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. This action was commenced on the twelfth day of January, 1904, in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila, Philippine Islands, by the plaintiffs in error, Eleanor Erica Strong and Richard P. Strong, her husband, against the defendant in error.
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ERROR, TO AND APPEAL PROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. This action was commenced on the twelfth day of January, 1904, in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila, Philippine Islands, by the plaintiffs in error, Eleanor Erica Strong and Richard P. Strong, her husband, against the defendant in error. It was brought by the plaintiff, Mrs. Strong, • as the owner of eight hundred shares of the capital stock of the Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company, Limited, (the other- plaintiff being added as her husband), to recover such shares from defendant (who was already…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice. Peckham,
after making the foregoing state-' ment, delivered the opinion of the court.
The Court of First Instance at Manila gave judgment in-favor of the plaintiffs on two grounds discussed in the opinion, one ground being that the agent of plaintiff, by whom the sale was' concluded, had no .authority to make it, and hence the délivery of the stock by him to defendant’s agent was illegal; the other ground was that the defendant had been guilty of fraud in concealing certain facts from the seller affecting the value of the stock'.at the'time when its sale- was concluded.
Upon appeal…
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