Chester County Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Securities Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Securities Company and another, 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 28th day of April, 1914, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The plaintiffs, as executors of the estate of Ann W. Roberts, deceased, were, prior to March 28, 1908, the registered owners and holders of $23,400 consols, hereafter called bonds, of the defendant Securities Company. These bonds were nonnegotiable and transferable only by indorsement, duly authenticated, upon surrender to the company. They were kept by the plaintiffs in a tin box in a vault of the First National Bank of West Chester, Penn. On or about the date named Gibbons G. Cornwell, a son of the plaintiff R. T. Cornwell, in some way not clearly explained in the record,…
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