Baker v. Davie
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 18 and 21, 1910, the first by the members of the firm of Baker, Ayling and Company against Robert E. Davie, William H. Jackson, Henry I. Harriman, the Federal Trust Company, a corporation, and William Wheeler, intervening by petition, and the second by William H. Jackson against Robert E. Davie, the plaintiffs in the first case, the Federal Trust Company and other defendants.
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Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 18 and 21, 1910, the first by the members of the firm of Baker, Ayling and Company against Robert E. Davie, William H. Jackson, Henry I. Harriman, the Federal Trust Company, a corporation, and William Wheeler, intervening by petition, and the second by William H. Jackson against Robert E. Davie, the plaintiffs in the first case, the Federal Trust Company and other defendants. The cases were referred to George W. Estabrook, Esquire, as master to be heard together, the master to report his findings with such facts and questions of law…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These suits involve the rights of various persons in certain shares of stock. The occasion for litigation arises from the perfidy of Robert E. Davie. William H. Jackson was the owner of eleven hundred and seventy shares of the American News Company, for which he held a single certificate in ordinary form, stating among other things that it was “transferable only on the books of the company, by him or his attorney, on surrender of this certificate.” He was induced by fraudulent representations of Davie, of such nature that as between the two no title or right to use for his own benefit passed…
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