Disbrow v. Secor
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for an interpleader as to the ownership of certain oil paintings in the possession of the plaintiff; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Fenn, J. The defendants were Jerome B. Secor, L. F. Curtis and Edward Moran, each of whom filed an answer, setting forth his title. The court found that a part of the pictures belonged to Secor and a part to Curtis, and none of them to Moran, and rendered judgment accordingly. Moran appealed.
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Suit for an interpleader as to the ownership of certain oil paintings in the possession of the plaintiff; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Fenn, J. The defendants were Jerome B. Secor, L. F. Curtis and Edward Moran, each of whom filed an answer, setting forth his title. The court found that a part of the pictures belonged to Secor and a part to Curtis, and none of them to Moran, and rendered judgment accordingly. Moran appealed. The points of law decided by this court will be clearly understood from the opinion, without a statement of the facts, which are…
1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.
The court finds that D. P. Secord, with whom the claimant Moran entered into the agreement to exchange the pictures in question for the real estate, falsely represented to Moran that the real estate was the property of one Taylor, while in fact it was his own, and that Moran, relying upon such representation, confided in the statements of Secord regarding the property, and made him his agent to procure it for him, and that Secord, while professing to act as such agent, and for the best interest of Moran, was selling his own property to him for the best price he could get.
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- Bulkley v. MorganSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1878
- Brown v. PierceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
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