Gill v. Jamaica Bay Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Jamaica Bay Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 18th day of May, 1915, as resettled; also appeal by the defendants, Thomas Swain and another, from said judgment as resettled in so far as it fails to direct a dismissal of the complaint as to them. The judgment was rendered upon the report of an official referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
This judgment represents the value of certain coupon bonds payable to bearer, issued by the defendant corporation. These bonds are part of a number of bonds lent to that corporation under an agreement executed by several bondholders (who were also stockholders) with the corporation. The plaintiff’s husband, Thomas Gill, was a party to the agreement. The plaintiff complains, on the equity side of the court, that she was induced to deliver the bonds by the fraudulent representations of Stillings, the secretary of the defendant corporation, and that the failure to return the bonds…
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- Taylor v. . HiggsNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
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