Clarke v. Eureka County Bank
District Court, D. Nevada
Action for Conversion, Tried to the Court without a Jury. The correspondence between the respective parties concerning the demand made by plaintiff for the delivery of the shares of stock, referred to in the opinion of the court, is here set forth: On March 12, 1902, counsel for plaintiff addressed a letter to the defendant which reads as follows: “On the 25th day of January, 1902, a judgment and decree was rendered and entered by the * * * district court of * * * Ormsby…
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Action for Conversion, Tried to the Court without a Jury. The correspondence between the respective parties concerning the demand made by plaintiff for the delivery of the shares of stock, referred to in the opinion of the court, is here set forth: On March 12, 1902, counsel for plaintiff addressed a letter to the defendant which reads as follows: “On the 25th day of January, 1902, a judgment and decree was rendered and entered by the * * * district court of * * * Ormsby county, in the case of Irene M. Robinson v. Henry Kind and Eugene Howell, fully adjusting all equities between the parties,…
1Opinion of the Court
HAWLEY, District Judge.
This is an action to recover the sum of $15,000 damages for the alleged wrongful conversion of 1,000 shares of the Rocco-Homestake Mining Company, with dividends and accumulations. The case was tried before the court, a jury having been waived by stipulation of the parties. It is admitted that the value of the shares of stock at the time of the alleged conversion thereof was $6,000, as alleged in the complaint, and that the dividends thereon amounted to $4,300, as stated in the answer.
It appears from the testimony that in 1899 Robert M. Clarke, an ■attorney at law,…
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