Meyer v. Goedel
New York Supreme Court
The plaintiff sued the defendant to recover from Mm damages for fraud alleged to have been committed in the sale of certain stocks by the defendant to the plaintiff. There were two sales, one of stock in the Hew York and Richmond Coal Company, and the other of an interest in the Cumberland Saltpetre Company. Two causes of action were stated in the complaint, one in regard to the sale of the coal stock, and one in regard to the interest in the saltpetre company.
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The plaintiff sued the defendant to recover from Mm damages for fraud alleged to have been committed in the sale of certain stocks by the defendant to the plaintiff. There were two sales, one of stock in the Hew York and Richmond Coal Company, and the other of an interest in the Cumberland Saltpetre Company. Two causes of action were stated in the complaint, one in regard to the sale of the coal stock, and one in regard to the interest in the saltpetre company. Upon the trial, evidence was offered by the plaintiff as to each transaction and received by the court without objection. When the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court, Ingraham, P. J.
It is proper to remark that in this ease no motion was made for a new trial upon the facts, or for any cause whatever arising upon the evidence, and we are here confined entirely to the exceptions taken upon the trial. First, to the refusal of the court to open the case after it had been summed up to the jury, for the purpose of admitting testimony to disprove any supposed fraud in the sale of the interest in the saltpetre company; and secondly, to the charge of the judge, that the jury might take the evidence in the case on that subject into consideration on the…
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