Northrop v. Newtown & Bridgeport Turnpike Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of assumpsit, to recover the amount of four dividends, declared, in the year 1816, by The Newtown and Bridgeport Turnpike Company, on one hundred shares of their stock, of which the plaintiff averred, that he was the. proprietor. / ' ' The cause was tried, on the issue of non-assumpsit, at Fair-field, December term, 1818, before Edmond, Smith, and Gould, Js.
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THIS was an action of assumpsit, to recover the amount of four dividends, declared, in the year 1816, by The Newtown and Bridgeport Turnpike Company, on one hundred shares of their stock, of which the plaintiff averred, that he was the. proprietor. / ' ' The cause was tried, on the issue of non-assumpsit, at Fair-field, December term, 1818, before Edmond, Smith, and Gould, Js. The title of the plaintiff to this stock was derived from a conveyance or transfer, by Beebe Hine, in the following words : “ Know all men, by these presents, that I, Beebe Hine, of New-Milfiord, in the county oí…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
This is an action on the case, brought to recover dividends, made on one hundred shares of stock, in The Bridgeport and Newtown Turnpike Company, which the plaintiff claims, as being his property. A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff, in the sum of 293 dollars, 25 cents ; and the defendants moved for a new trial.
The stock was formerly owned by Beebe Hiñe, and the plaintiff claims it, by purchase. On the 27th December, 1814, Iline made to the plaintiff a written assignment in pais, of the shares, for the expressed consideration of 2000 dollars, and therein requested the clerk…
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