Fiske v. Doucette
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 20, 1906, and afterwards amended, in which the plaintiff averred that he employed the defendant to buy and sell upon margin for his account various securities, intending that there should be no actual purchase or sale thereof, and delivered to the defendant on account thereof three bonds of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad, that the defendant had reasonable cause to believe that the plaintiff’s intention…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 20, 1906, and afterwards amended, in which the plaintiff averred that he employed the defendant to buy and sell upon margin for his account various securities, intending that there should be no actual purchase or sale thereof, and delivered to the defendant on account thereof three bonds of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad, that the defendant had reasonable cause to believe that the plaintiff’s intention existed, that the defendant still had the bonds, and that the plaintiff knew of no other property of his that could be…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
This is a suit in equity to recover securities (or the value of them) alleged to have been deposited with the defendant, a stockbroker, for the purpose of carrying on that species of gambling referred to in R. L. c. 99, § 4. The cause was sent to a master, who found that the plaintiff at the solicitation of one Smith, an employee of the defendant, deposited the bonds in question with the defendant as security for stock transactions; that Smith ordered purchases and sales of stocks without personal directions from the plaintiff, only occasionally reporting to him what was being done; that…
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