Chaskin v. Mackay
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ivan Chaskin, 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 15th day of October, 1908, granting the defendants’ motion that an open commission issue to take the deposition of witnesses produced by defendants in the ¡Republic of ¡France.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The facts neither require nor warrant an order so broad and unrestricted as that which has been granted. In the fall of 1905 the plaintiff claims to have purchased of the defendants 100 bonds of the Randolph Macon Coal Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Missouri, of the par value of $1,000 each, and he brings this action to recover the sum of $94,475, the purchase price paid, together with interest thereon, less certain interest received, on the ground that lie was induced to purchase them by fraud, and that upon discovering the fraud he rescinded the contract and…
2Cited by1 opinion
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