Hudson Trust Co. v. American Linseed Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Hudson Trust Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of February, 1919, dismissing the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s case, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of March, 1919, denying plaintiff’s motion to set aside the dismissal of the complaint and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The action was to recover from the defendant damages for the loss sustained by the plaintiff in making a loan upon a certificate of defendant’s stock which was fraudulently issued and permitted to remain outstanding by reason of defendant’s negligence.
The defendant was organized in December, 1908, with a capital stock of $33,500,000, equally divided into common and preferred, all of which had been issued at the times hereinafter mentioned. The first president was B. F. Miles, and the first treasurer was W. D. Douglas. Miles and Douglas signed their names to a large number of blank…
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