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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. John F. MacMasters, Respondent.
    
      Crimes — trading by broker against customer's ordei--judgment of conviction properly reversed.
    
    
      People v. MacMasters, 218 App. Div. 754, affirmed.
    [Argued October 17, 1927;
    decided November 22, 1927.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered November 18,1926, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, which reversed a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the county of New York rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of a violation of section 954 of the Penal Law (trading by brokers against customers’ orders) and directed a dismissal of the indictment on authority of People v. Ruskay (243 N. Y. 58).
    
      Joab H. Banton, District Attorney, for appellant.
    
      Jacob H. Gilbert, Loring M. Black and Edward A. Robertson for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ. Not sitting: Cardozo, Ch. J.