Post v. Emmett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, George B. Post, Jr., and others, and by the defendant J. Jaffred Butler, as temporary administrator, etc., of Joseph Richardson, deceased, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 30th day of March, 1899, denying the plaintiffs’ motion for an injunction restraining the defendant Emmett from proceeding with two suits which she had brought against the…
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Appeal by the plaintiffs, George B. Post, Jr., and others, and by the defendant J. Jaffred Butler, as temporary administrator, etc., of Joseph Richardson, deceased, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 30th day of March, 1899, denying the plaintiffs’ motion for an injunction restraining the defendant Emmett from proceeding with two suits which she had brought against the plaintiffs to recover certain moneys and securities, and for an order allowing the plaintiffs to pay the moneys into…
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The plaintiffs allege. that they were partners doing business as • brokers in the city of New York, and that during the months of December, 1897, and January, 1898, the defendant Emmett deposited with them, as security for purchases of stocks which they were to make on her account, certain stocks and bonds of the value of about $235,000; that .at the time of the bringing of this action, which was on the 6th of March, 1899, a large portion of these stocks had been sold, and the plaintiffs had in their hands a balance from the sales of about $6,500, and they had also about 800 shares…
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