Bates v. Preble
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE district of Massachusetts. This was an action at law brought by Sarah A. Preble to recover of the defendants Bates and "Walley, stock brokers, the value of certain securities, the property , of the plaintiff, which she alleged had been converted by the defendants to their own use.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE district of Massachusetts. This was an action at law brought by Sarah A. Preble to recover of the defendants Bates and "Walley, stock brokers, the value of certain securities, the property , of the plaintiff, which she alleged had been converted by the defendants to their own use. The facts were substantially as follows: Mrs. Preble, a widow and a resident of Portland, Maine, acquired by her husband’s will certain securities, consisting of stocks and bonds, which she kept in a box in the vaults of the Union Safe Deposit Company, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown,
after stating the case, delivered' the opinion of the court.
There are thirty-four assignments of error in this case, many of which are of little importance, and as we have come to the conclusion that the case must be reversed and a new trial ordered, it is neither necessary nor advisable that we should dispose, of them all.(1) The seventh and eighth assignments are taken to the admission of certain pages of a memorand um book purporting to contain a list of securities- owned by the plaintiff. Concerning this book she testified that “it was her own book, in her own…
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