Jones v. . Terre Haute Richmond R.R. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
These are cross appeals by the parties, respectively, from different portions of a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the decision of the court, on trial without a jury.
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These are cross appeals by the parties, respectively, from different portions of a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the decision of the court, on trial without a jury. This action was brought to recover a cash and a stock dividend, to which the plaintiff claimed to be entitled as owner, of eighty shares of the stock of the defendant, a corporation chartered under a' law of the State of Indiana. The facts on which the claim was based were found by the court, substantially, as follows:…
1Opinion of the Court
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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] It is unnecessary to decide whether the closing of the stock and transfer books of the defendant on the 30th day of November, 1856, and continuing them so closed for fifteen days thereafter, precluded the conversion of the plaintiff's bonds into stock of the company during that time. Assuming, but not conceding that it did, the fact…
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