Skiff v. Stoddard
Supreme Court of Connecticut
ACTIONS by sundry claimants on the insolvent and assigned estate of Bunnell & Scranton, who bad been bankers and brokers in New Haven, the defendant being the trustee in insolvency. The plaintiffs were creditors by virtue of deposits of money with the firm for the purchase and carrying by them for the depositors of stock, in the New York market, and 'claimed a right to the stocks so far as they could be traced.
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ACTIONS by sundry claimants on the insolvent and assigned estate of Bunnell & Scranton, who bad been bankers and brokers in New Haven, the defendant being the trustee in insolvency. The plaintiffs were creditors by virtue of deposits of money with the firm for the purchase and carrying by them for the depositors of stock, in the New York market, and 'claimed a right to the stocks so far as they could be traced. The defendant represented the interests of the general depositors and creditors. The claimants had united in an amicable proceeding, under an arrangement by which they were to…
1Opinion of the Court
H. H. Bunnell and C. W. Scranton, under the name of Bunnell Scranton, were for more than twenty years bankers and brokers, having their office in New Haven. In their banking department they received deposits and conducted a private banking business in the usual manner. In their brokerage department they bought, sold and exchanged stocks, bonds and other securities or evidences of title to personal property of various kinds, upon their own account and for others, upon commission, after the usual custom of stockbrokers in this state and the state of New York. By far the largest part of their…
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