Jahn v. Reynolds
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, De Elbert A. Reynolds.and another, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 5th day of April, 1906, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, overruling the defendants’ separate demurrers to the amended complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The defendants appeal from an interlocutory judgment overruling their demurrers that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The plaintiff seeks a decree for the return to him of 265 shares of the capital stock of the Hew York and Eastern Telegraph and Telephone Company exchanged by him with the defendants for 265 shares of the Great-Eastern Telephone Company. He complains that he was led into the exchange by false and fraudulent representations, among others that the Great Eastern Company, in which defendants -were directors, controlled the…
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- Jahn v. ReynoldsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907