Haight v. Haight & Freese Co.
New York Supreme Court
Action against stockbrokers for accounting of dealings with plaintiff, a customer. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtDowling, J.
The defendant, Haight & Freese Co., is a corporation engaged in the business of buying and selling stocks as stockbrokers upon margin and otherwise. To them the plaintiff came in the ordinary course of business, and during the year 1902 intrusted to them various sums of money as margins, upon a ten point basis, to be used in the purchase and sale of various shares of stock as ordered by plaintiff at intervals during said period: in all these- transactions the defendant acted as plaintiff’s broker and agent. Plaintiff alleges a course of dealing on defendant’s part, whereby the transactions…
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- Prout v. ChisolmNew York Supreme Court · 1895
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