Vance v. Tourne
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE WATTS PRESIDING. The facts and pleadings in this case, are fully stated in the following opinion and judgment, of the district judge who presided at the trial : “ This is a suit for non-compliance with a stock contract.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE WATTS PRESIDING. The facts and pleadings in this case, are fully stated in the following opinion and judgment, of the district judge who presided at the trial : “ This is a suit for non-compliance with a stock contract. The petition alleges that Tourné & Beckwith are indebted to Yance in two thousand eight hundred dollars for this: that on 24th June, 1834, Vance purchased from Tourné & Beckwith, four hundred shares of Mechanics’ and Traders’ bank stock, at twenty-six dollars per share for thirty dollars paid. That Vance is, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
The petitioner alleges, that on the 24lh of June, 1834, he purchased from the defendants four hundred shares of the Mechanics’ and Traders’ Bank stock; that he has always been ready to pay the price, and has offered to do so, but that the defendants refused to comply with their contract, as the stock was rising in the market, and to deliver said shares of stock, although the plaintiff has continually insisted on the delivery of the same ; that the stock was afterwards sold by the defendants, at a sum exceeding by twenty-eight hundred dollars the price agreed to be paid by him, which amount is…
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