Legal Opinion
Hall v. Paine
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 11, 1916PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRhgg, C. J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was a customer of the defendants, a firm of stockbrokers, who were carrying for him certain stocks on margin. He seeks to recover from them damages alleged to have been sustained arising out of these transactions. For convenience, the plaintiff’s intestate hereafter will be referred to as the plaintiff.
1. One ground of action is the breach of an oral contract, whereby the defendants agreed to carry for him shares of Copper Range Consolidated Mining Company stock as long as he desired, regardless of the state of his margin account and of the market, *64and to deliver…
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- Bibb v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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