Shaw v. Equitable Life & Casualty Insurance

This is a case tried by a jury in which the plaintiff sought to recover on the common counts approximately $1,600 from the defendant for certain services which plaintiff claimed he had rendered to the defendant company while acting as its attorney; and he also sought to recover for certain bond coupons and for 35 shares of stock in the defendant company valued at $2,100. The plaintiff asserted that the contract for his services and the transaction through which he became the owner of the stock in the defendant company were consummated through Mr. Melvin E. Raymond. The plaintiff alleged that…