Byrne v. Weidenfeld
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Camille Weidenfeld and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 28th ' day of February, 1905, upon, the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Nassau Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
On November 1, 1897, the defendants, a firm of stockbrokers, then in liquidation, sent a statement to Byrne showing his indebtedness to it of $600,000 and that it held his. securities against such indebtedness. The upshot of interviews and correspondence was an offer by Byrne to pay that debt if the defendants would deliver his securities to him, and an acceptance of such offer by defendants. At the appointed place and time, November 10,1897, tender of that *452debt, as stated by defendants, and demand for the securities was made,.but the defendants answered that they were unable to…
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