McManus v. Durant
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Francis P. McManus and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of April, 1914, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special' Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
The controversy between the parties herein arises out of the affairs of a corporation known as the St. Gabriel Lumber Company, Limited, formed under letters patent of the Province of Quebec, Canada, in September, 1902. Prior to the incorporation of said company, Lindley M. Garrison, one of the plaintiffs who had met defendant Durant socially, had a conversation with the latter, in which Durant said that he had been interested from time to time largely in the matter of purchasing tracts of land containing timber, either for purchasers who had commissioned him so to do or as a…
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