Cowen v. Pressprich
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendants from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough' of Manhattan, first district, in favor of plaintiffs, after trial by the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtMullan, J.
Conversion, for the defendants’ alleged wrongful delivery of a bond. The parties on both sides are stock-exchange brokers. Plaintiffs had agreed to sell and deliver to defendants a bond of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, of the par value of $1,000. To fill that order plaintiffs ordered the bond from a third bond house arid the latter, by mistake, sent plaintiffs an Oregon and California Railroad bond, and plaintiffs, also by mistake, sent this Oregon and California bond to defendants. There is no controversy as to the manner of the sending. Plaintiffs handed the Oregon and California bond to…
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