LaFountain & Woolson Co. v. Brown
Supreme Court of Vermont
Contract, for money had and received. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court at the June Term, 1916, Windsor County, Slack, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The action is contract for money had and received. The plaintiff seeks to recover the amount of a dividend on stock purchased by it from the defendant. The ease was tried by the court on an agreed statement of facts and the plaintiff had judgment.
The defendant was the owner of the major part of the capital stock of the Brown Hotel Company, a corporation operating a hotel at Springfield, Vt., and one of the three directors of the corporation. On March 24, 1916, he had negotiations with plaintiff’s representative regarding the sale of the capital stock of the Hotel Company. Later the same day…
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