Schmid v. DuVal
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Ida L. DuVal and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of June, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of June, 1921, denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This action was brought against the members of the stock brokerage firm of H. C. DuVal & Co. for the conversion of 100 shares of the preferred stock of the South Porto Rico Sugar Company, which they held as margin for a speculative account which they were carrying for the plaintiff. Pending the appeal, Horace *515C. DuVal, one of the defendants, died and his executrix was duly-substituted in his place.
Plaintiff alleged that on the 24th day of December, 1917, defendants were carrying for his account 100 shares of said preferred stock; that there was then due and owing from him to…
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