Titcomb v. Union Marine & Fire Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of the case, in which the plaintiff declared, 1. For not transferring to him fifteen shares in the stock of said company, purchased by him, and which having become his property, the defendants had undertaken to have transferred. 2. For not paying dividends on fifteen shares when purchased. 3. For not paying 3000 dollars, money received by the company for the use of the plaintiff.
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This was an action of the case, in which the plaintiff declared, 1. For not transferring to him fifteen shares in the stock of said company, purchased by him, and which having become his property, the defendants had undertaken to have transferred. 2. For not paying dividends on fifteen shares when purchased. 3. For not paying 3000 dollars, money received by the company for the use of the plaintiff. The defendants pleaded that they never promised, &c., on which issue being joined by" the plaintiff, a trial of the issue was had before Sewall, J., at the April term of this court, 1810. For the…
1Opinion of the Court
The action was continued nisi for advisement, and at the next March term in Suffolk the opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Sewall, J.
The controversy between these parties is respecting sertain shares, originally subscribed by George A. Rogers, in the stock of the corporation, the defendants in this action. Fifteen of *279twenty-five shares subscribed by Rogers were sold by the directors of this corporatioil on the 26th of April, 1809, and the proceeds applied to the payment of a note, in which the said Rogers was indebted to the corporation for certain instalments of'money due upon *his…
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