Lorillard v. . Clyde
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of Mew York, entered upon an order made February 6, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court upon trial at Circuit, and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of Mew York, entered upon an order made February 6, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court upon trial at Circuit, and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. This action was upon a written agreement whereby the defendants, under their firm name of “ William P. Clyde & Co.,” guaranteed to the plaintiff a dividend of not less than seven per cent per annum for seven years from July 1, 1874, upon certain shares of stock, which, as it was stipulated,…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The clause of the contract upon which all of ttlie actions, mentioned in the foregoing statement, were founded is as follows, viz.: “ William P. Clyde '& Co. to have fhe management of said corporation and business, and in consid eration thereof, to guarantee-Jacob Lorillard a dividend of not. less than seven per cent per annum- for seven years, and to receive for such management the usual commission of two and one-lialf per cent in, and five per cent out, at each end, on the freights earned.”
On the 18tli of ¡November, 188Í, when the plaintiff began suit for the default of 1876, he was…
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