Douglas v. Carpenter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Robert' B. Carpenter, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of January,. 1897, upon the report of a referee. •
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
’ The action was'brought by a firm of bankers and stockbrokers, members of" the Stock Exchange, in New York city, to recover the balance of an account growing out of speculative stock, bond and grain operations conducted by; plaintiffs for defendant on man'gvn. The account began October 11, 1888, and continued until Decern- • ber 1, 1893. The defendant, among other things,, claimed that there had been conversion by the' plaintiffs of certain securities belonging to the defendant by their having pledged the same, and that the defendant was entitled to damages for such conversion.…
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