Briggs v. Jones
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from judgment on report of referee. Action by Thomas J. Briggs against Nathaniel S. Jones, Francis J. Kennett, George R. Hopkins, and George Kirkland for conversion of shares of stock. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
This is an action for the conversion of 200 shares of stock, the property of the plaintiff, held by the defendants for the plaintiff’s account in their capacity of stockbrokers. ■ That error is predicable of the referee’s findings of fact upon the evidence *710is not, we think, to be successfully urged; and that the case in this aspect is accepted by the appellants seems to appear from the nature of their contention for a reversal. It appears that the stock in question was lost to the plaintiff when in the custody of the defendants as bailees, under the following circumstances: During the period…
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