Lawyers' Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, the Lawyers’ Title Insurance and Trust - Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Pew York on the 28th day of Povember, 1905, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Pew York Special Term sustaining the defendants’ demurrer to the complaint, upon the ground that it failed to state facts sufficient to constitute, a, -» cause- of…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, the Lawyers’ Title Insurance and Trust - Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Pew York on the 28th day of Povember, 1905, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Pew York Special Term sustaining the defendants’ demurrer to the complaint, upon the ground that it failed to state facts sufficient to constitute, a, -» cause- of action.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is' an action, against a firm of stockbrokers to recover $35,213.13, exacted by them as a condition of returning certain corporate bonds which had been stolen from tile plaintiff. It is" alleged in the complaint that the bonds'were stolen by one Thomas G. Wylie, án employee of the owner of some of- the bonds and the 'custodian of the others, and delivered to the brokerage, firm of Willard"H. Jones & Go., to whose rights and liabilities the defendants have, succeeded, “ to be held as collateral security for the pay-' . jnent of any sums of money that might be or becopie due…
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