Putnam v. Clark

The Chancellor.

The complainant, Mrs. Adah A. Putnam, was, on or about the 21st of April, 1871, the owner of a bond and mortgage for $12,000 and interest, given to her by Jane M. Mackay and her husband, on land in Jersey City. At *413that time those instruments were in the hands of her attorney, William C. Barrett, of the law firm of Barrett, Eedfield & Hill, of the city of New York. Being desirous of obtaining the money for them, with a view to a profitable re-investment of it, which was then offered to her, she applied to Barrett on the subject, and he told her that he thought he would be able…