Jacobs v. Moore
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-appeals by the plaintiff, Isaac Maurice Jacobs, and by the defendants, Joseph H. Moore and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of July, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Merrell, J.:
This action was brought to recover the sum of $10,000 and interest, damages which the plaintiff claims to have suffered by reason of the. conversion by the defendants of 5,000 shares of stock of the Mines Holding Company, a Delaware corporation. The defendants are copartners doing business as stockbrokers in the city of New York and elsewhere under the firm name and style of Moore, Leonard & Lynch. The plaintiff is the president and treasurer of a weekly publication known as the New York Financial Examiner, published in the city of New York.
For many years prior to the occurrences…
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