Merrill v. . Consumers' Coal Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the general term of the superior court of the city of New York, affirming a judgment entered upon a verdict.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action was brought to recover three hundred shares of the capital stock of the defendant, or their value. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff entered into an agreement with the defendant to render and perform legal services for the corporation and to act and appear for it as its attorney for the space of one year, and that he was to be paid therefor three hundred shares of the stock of the company, of the par value of live dollars per share; that the services had been rendered, and the stock demanded, but that no part thereof had been delivered to him. The answer admitted that the…
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