Legal Opinion
Halsey v. Winant
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 24, 1931PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTownley, J.
The plaintiffs are judgment creditors of the defendant Clinton D. Winant, and bring this action to subject to the payment of their judgment 450,000 shares of the capital stock of Falcon Oil Corporation.
At the commencement of the action, on February 2, 1929, those shares concededly were in the possession of the defendant W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. (hereinafter called Harriman) as security for a debt of Winant amounting to $2,600,000, and were being advertised for sale at public auction on February 6, 1929, for the purpose of foreclosing the pledge. The complaint alleged that that debt was…
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