People ex rel. Briggs v. Hanley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the People of the State of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of January, 1918, sustaining a writ of habeas corpus and discharging the relator from custody.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
In 1913 James E. Foye was a clerk employed in the transfer department of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company in the city of New York at a salary of $75 a month. He corresponded with Charles T. Brown of Philadelphia, who had advertised in the newspapers his ability to loan money, and inquired of the latter if he would loan $10,000 on Foye’s note for six months with Stock Exchange collateral. On receiving a reply in the affirmative, Foye, who had obtained possession of twenty-six blank certificates of stock of the General Electric Company through his position with the trust company,…
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