Potts v. Lambie

This is a demurrer for insufficiency interposed to alleged new matter set up as a defense. The action is for damages claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff because of defendant’s false representations as to the financial condition of a certain corporation and the sale by the defendant to the plaintiff of certain shares of stock in said corporation. The new matter demurred to is as follows : “ That plaintiff was elected second vice-president and director of the Hew York Export and Import Company on or about the 15th day of August, 1904, and has ever since been such officer and…