Spicer v. Hincks

The pleadings and the claims of proof by the respective parties set forth in the findings are voluminous and somewhat complicated, but many of the potential questions presented or suggested thereby become, for practical purposes of the present appeal, immaterial or subsidiary; the ultimate and decisive questions as developed on the trial were whether the defendants wrongfully failed to sell the plaintiff’s land bank stocks when and as ordered by him, and whether their action in selling his Puget Sound Power & Light Company stock was wrongful, as the plaintiff claimed, or justified, as the…