Shreve v. Crosby

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This was an action upon contract. The declaration contained the usual combination of the common money counts in assumpsit, including claims for money had and received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff, for money paid by the plaintiff for the use of the defendant at his request, for interest moneys, &c. In the bill of particulars it was set forth that the action was brought to recover the sum of $7,000, paid by the plaintiff to the defendant or his order for ten thousand shares of the capital stock of the Ohio Oil Company, upon a…