Crittenden v. Cobb
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Middle Pennsylvania
At Law. On rule for new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
By the agreement in suit, the plaintiff in terms contracted to sell, and the defendants to buy, the stock and bonds which he owned of the New York & Pennsylvania Railroad. The stock is specifically designated in the writing, but the bonds are not, it being impossible to do so, as it is stated, for the reason that some of them are “undivided,” it being the declared intention, however, that the plaintiff should sell and the defendants should buy all that the plaintiff owned, whether divided or undivided, being restricted only to those which he then owned, the plaintiff…
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