Pratt v. Taunton Copper Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff was the owner of shares in each of the defendant corporations, and held certificates therefor, which were taken from her house without her knowledge, and, together with a forged power of attorney in her name to the corporation, delivered to W. N. Field & Company, brokers, for sale. Field & Company employed Hawes & Henshaw, stock auctioneers, to sell the shares by auction, and they sold them accordingly. Field & Company afterwards presented the certificate and power of attorney, in the one case, to the clerk of the corporation, duly empowered to make transfers, and, in the other…