Legal Opinion
David v. Belmont
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 5, 1935PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action at law in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of his purchase of three hundred shares of the common stock of the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation from the defendants, who were partners engaged in the business of banking and dealing in securities, with an office in Boston.
The declaration is in two counts. The first relates to one hundred shares of stock purchased on September 24, 1929, which, it was alleged, the plaintiff was induced to continue to hold, when he otherwise would have sold, by reason of certain false and fraudulent…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Hall v. PaineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Hotaling v. A. B. Leach & Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Piper v. ChildsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Morse v. HutchinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Murray v. StantonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,357 Marbury Management, Inc., and Harry Bader, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Appellees v. Alfred Kohn, and Wood, Walker & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Small v. Fritz Companies, Inc.California Supreme Court · 2003
- Grant Thornton LLP v. Prospect High Income FundTexas Supreme Court · 2010
- Ausa Life Insurance Company, Bankers United Life Assurance Company, Crown Life Insurance Company, General Services Life Insurance Company, Life Investors Insurance Company of America, Modern Woodmen of America, Monumental Life Insurance Company, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and the Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Ernst and YoungCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Twin Fires Investment, LLC v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
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