Legal Opinion
In Re the Accounting of Oakes
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 29, 1928PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
Francis J. Oakes, the owner of 1,510 shares of stock of the Oakes Manufacturing Company, made delivery of his certificates to be held in escrow for the benefit of his son. Delivery was accompanied by a writing which described the conditions of the escrow as follows:
“ I, Francis J. Oakes, hereby deliver irrevocably the certificates of stock of the Oakes Manufacturing Company owned by me for 1,510 shares of the stock of said company, to John D. Kernan and Archibald R. Watson in escrow, to be delivered by them or the survivor of them upon my death to my son Francis J. Oakes, Jr.,…
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