Parsons v. Utica Cement Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on two coupon bonds for $1,000 each, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before George W. Wheeler, J.; a verdict for the plaintiff was set aside by the court as against the evidence, and the plaintiff appealed. The defendant filed a bill of exceptions to certain of the instructions given to the jury. Exceptions sustained in part.
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Action on two coupon bonds for $1,000 each, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before George W. Wheeler, J.; a verdict for the plaintiff was set aside by the court as against the evidence, and the plaintiff appealed. The defendant filed a bill of exceptions to certain of the instructions given to the jury. Exceptions sustained in part. The coupons were of the following form:— “Hartford, Conn., January 1,1885. “$30.00 “ On the first day of July, A. D. 1888, we promise to pay to the bearer thirty dollars at the Charter Oak National Bank of Hartford, Conn.,…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
This is a suit brought in 1906 on two
negotiable coupon bonds for $1,000 each, issued by the defendant in 1885 and payable in 1890, to recover on each the principal, and also the interest due for two years as evidenced by the four coupons which were the last to mature. Both bonds and coupons were payable to bearer. The answer avers that the bonds, in 1887, were owned by the Continental Life Insurance Company, and were then fraudulently taken from its possession by the plaintiff’s husband, who was its president, without any consideration moving to the company, and came into her possession with…
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