Peckham v. Keenan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This is an action to rescind, because of the alleged fraud of defendants, a contract by which plaintiff traded 200 shares of the capital stock of the Monarch Cement Company, and for the recovery of the stock, or its value. The defendants named were H. A. Hewitt, A. F. Carson, Walter Krouse, H. H. Keenan, T. M. Thomas, doing business as the Thomas Investment Company, Carl L. Lamb and Paul Brown. Defendants Carson and Lamb were never served with summons; defendants Hewitt and Krouse defaulted; plaintiff settled his controversy with Brown, as…