Crawford v. Dollar Savings Fund & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 230, Oct. T., 1911, by plaintiff from decree of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1908, No. 838, dismissing bill in equity in case of William J. Crawford v. Dollar Savings Fund & Trust Company. Bill in equity for an injunction and for the delivery of certificates of stock. Before Macfarlane, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was decree dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Beown,
Whitney & Stephenson, a firm of brokers, doing business in the city of Pittsburgh, were carrying certain stocks for the appellant. On March 17, 1907, they called upon him for more margin. He was not able to give them any money, but they agreed to take from him, as additional security, four hundred shares of the capital stock of the Pittsburgh & Westmoreland Coal Company, for which he held four certificates for one hundred shares each. He delivered these certificates to the brokers, but did not sign the assignment and power of attorney printed on the back of each.…
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