Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. v. Mohr
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1875, No. 106. This was a bill in equity, brought February 10th 1873, by Sophia Mohr against'the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, to compel it to replace a certain certificate of loan of the company belonging to the plaintiff, or to pay the plaintiff the value thereof.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1875, No. 106. This was a bill in equity, brought February 10th 1873, by Sophia Mohr against'the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, to compel it to replace a certain certificate of loan of the company belonging to the plaintiff, or to pay the plaintiff the value thereof. The bill averred that the plaintiff was the owner of a certificate of the loan of the defendant company for $2000; that the company had permitted one Yezin to transfer the loan without her authority; and that Yezin had applied the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
On the 3d day of October 1865, the appellant, defendant below, issued to Sophia Mohr, a single woman, native of Germany and resident in Bremen, a certificate of its loan of 1844, for $2000. The purchase was made by Charles Yezin for Miss'Mohr, so stated by him, in the office of the company, at the time of the purchase, and to him the certificate was delivered, as her representative. Oh the 14th of October 1870, Yezin sold this certificate to William C. Longstreth, through a broker, made the proper transfer on the appellant’s books, and surrendered the certificate, which was can-celled by the…
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