Burnham v. Lawson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, William S. Lawson and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of fhe county of New York on the 23d day of IVIarcli, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of April, 1906, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Lambert, J.:
The defendants. are stockbrokers, and the plaintiff opened an account with' them in or before the year 1902. In 1903 the plaintiff called upon .'the defendants and had an interview with Mr. Sullivan, a member of the firm, in reference to his stock .transactions. There is a disjzute as to what occurred, but the jury might properly ñnd that the plaintiff arranged to have his transactions cared for during his absence on a vacation, and that he left with the defendants sufficient collateral to protect his account. The defendants sold out some of the plaintiff's holding’s and this…
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