The declaration in this case sets forth that the defendant, by his agent, assigned to the plaintiff a certain contract theretofore entered into between the defendant and one Raube for the purchase of a bond and mortgage made by one Thomas K. Moore, which was a valid lien for $7,500, besides interest, upon lands in the city of New York, of which the defendant was then the owner; that lire agreement between the plaintiff and defendant provided, among other tilings, that, in the event of the plaintiff’s taking an assignment of said bond and mortgage under said agreement with Baabe, he (the said plaintiff) should thereupon become, and continue to be, the owner of said bond and mortgage, with all the rights of an ordinary assignee for value. The declaration further avers that by virtue of said agreement the plaintiff did afterwards become! the owner of said bond and mortgage, and that “the defendant, through his agent and attorney at law, with intent to obstruct and defeat the rights of the plaintiff to said bond and mortgage, and plaintiff’s benefit and advantage from the ownership and disposition thereof, made certain false statements, knowing them to be false, respecting the plaintiff’s ownership of said bond and mortgage, and his right to dispose of the same by sale, falsely and wrongfully asserting or implying in and by such statements, or substantially to that effect, that said plaintiff had no right to sell said bond and mortgage”; that: the said plaintiff had “substantially agreed” to sell the said bond and mortgage to one or more persons for a sum greatly in excess of the amount paid for them, but that sale was defeated because said false statements came to the knowledge of the intending purchaser; that afterwards, on account of such false statements, plaintiff was obliged to sell and did sell the said bond and mortgage to the defendant, or-to a person for Ms benefit, or his agent or attorney, at a price, much less than he would have secured had his negotiations not been defeated by the said wrongful acts, whereby be (the plaintiff) has suffered an actual loss on sale of said bond and mortgage of $4,000, to. his damage $5,000, for which he brings his suit. To this declaration a general demurrer wras filed, and the grounds of demurrer are specifically set forth. The agreement upon which the declaration was founded was not annexed thereto when or as filed, and, though printed with, is not properly a part of, (he record. The basis of the plaintiff’s suit is the wrongful acts of the defendant complained of in the declaration, to wit, the “making of certain false statements concerning the plaintiffs ownership of said bond and mortgage, and his right to dispose of it by sale.” These statements, if made, did not affect (lie title of the plaintiff, as “the owner of said bond and mortgage, with all the rights of an assignee for value.” as plaintiff contends: but at most merely prevented him from realizing at sale
Stevenson v. Love
106 F. 466
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