Doucet v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Massachusetts Bonding and. Insurance Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of June, 1917, denying its motion for judgment on the pleadings consisting of a complaint and answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The point of law presented is whether the complaint is good. The action is brought to recover certain securities which the plaintiff delivered to the defendant on the 23d of December, 1916, or for the value thereof, upon the ground that there was no consideration flowing to the plaintiff from the agreement under which the securities were so delivered.
The plaintiff alleges than on the 16th of May, 1916, the defendant at the request of plaintiff’s nephew, Francis Doucet, executed to the Hilliard Hotel Company, which was engaged in conducting hotels, a bond in the amount of $10,000…
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