Crosby v. Paine

Taylor, C.

Action to recover the value of six. bonds or certificates of stock in a loan, each for the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, issued by the government of Brazil, and alleged to have been wrongfully converted to their own use by defendants. The jury found for defendants and plaintiff appealed from an order denying his alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

On February 9, 1922, plaintiff was the owner of the bonds in controversy, having purchased them some months before from Stevens & Company, a corporation dealing in bonds and other securities. Plaintiff was a stockholder…