Case ID: ny_237/html/0506-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bryan R. Dorr, Respondent, v. Harvey A. Willis, Appellant.
    
      Contract ■ — ■ stockbrokers ■ — ■ action to recover for alleged failure of stockbroker to buy and sell stocks as directed.
    
    
      Dorr v. Willis, 206 App. Div. 662, affirmed.
    (Argued October 15, 1923;
    decided November 20, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 20, 1923, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was brought to recover damages for the alleged failure of defendant, a stockbroker, to execute two orders of plaintiff, given on January 23, 1920, to buy 100 shares of Crucible Steel at 206% or less and to sell short 100 shares of General Motors at 298 or more. Plaintiff alleged that the orders actually executed by defendant were a short sale of 100 shares of Crucible Steel and a purchase of 100 shares of General Motors, or just the reverse of plaintiff’s instructions.
    
      Arleigh Pelham for appellant.
    
      Aaron H. Marx and Walter E. Godfrey for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.