Central Trust Co. v. Manhattan Trust Co.

When the court announced its decision upon this appeal directing judgment to be entered for the plaintiff for the sum of §300,000, we overlooked the finding of fact that the plaintiff had suffered only nominal damages, and, understanding from the record that the facts were undisputed from which this court found that the plaintiff had suffered damages for that amount, we thought that we could direct the proper judgment to be entered and thus save the parties the expense of another trial. In view, however, of the position taken by the defendant in its brief before the Court of Appeals and the…