Case ID: ny_239/html/0592-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Marc Klaw et al., Appellants, v. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation et al., Defendants, and Bankers’ Trust Company, as Executor of Alf Hayman, Respondent.
    
      Contract — action to recover on alleged agreement to deliver stock.
    
    
      Klaw v. Famous Players-Lasky Corpn., 207 App. Div. 211, affirmed.
    (Argued December 1, 1924;
    decided December 16, 1924.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered February 1, 1924, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The action' was to recover under an alleged agreement whereby it was claimed the respondent’s testator assigned and transferred to the plaintiff one-half of the stock of the corporation “ Charles Frohman, Inc.,” to which the said testator might be entitled or might at any time receive.
    
      Nathan D. Stern, I. M. Dittenhoefer and Mortimer Fishel for appellants.
    
      Lindley M. Garrison and Charles A. Boston for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Absent: Hiscock, Ch. J. Not sitting: Lehman, J.