Griggs v. Day
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Melville C. Day and another, as surviving executors, etc., of Cornelius II. Garrison, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $685,240.50, entered in the office of the clerk of the county, of New York on the 10th day of March, 1896, upon the report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
This action, brought in the Superior Court of the city of New York, has been tried three times with widely different results. It was' begun originally against Cornelius K. Garrison as the principal *443defendant, to compel an accounting by him of certain extensive and complicated financial transactions had by the plaintiff Avith him, and groAving out of the construction and equipment of a railway for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Company j an Ohio corporation. The plaintiff was the contractor for building the road and Garrison was his banker; that is to say, advanced all the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Griggs v. . DayNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
3Cited by1 opinion
- Griggs v. . DayNew York Court of Appeals · 1899