Bob v. Hecksher

The plaintiff brought this action against a number of defendants to recover damages because of their fraudulent acts. The complaint alleges that in the absence of the plaintiff from New York, and at a time when he was believed to *85be dead, the defendants jointly and severally conspired to and did usurp, convert and take unto themselves by improper and illegal means the plaintiff’s property to his damage and to defendants’ pecuniary profit.

False minutes of alleged meetings are said to have been prepared by several of the defendants. Other defendants, it is alleged, prepared minutes to show…