Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance on Lives v. Phila., Germantown & Norristown R. R.

Citations

• 153 Pa. 160
• 25 A. 1043
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1068

Syllabus

<p>Forgery — Evidence of other forgeries of same manufacture.</p> <p>On the trial of an issue to determine whether certain papers are forged or not, evidence of the forging of other papers of the same kind with those in question is admissible to demonstrate the means and the individual by which the forgery in the case trying was effected.</p> <p>In an action by a stockholder against a corpoi’ation to recover damages for the wrongful transfer of plaintiff’s shares upon a power of attorney which is alleged to have been forged, evidence is admissible to show that the desk of the alleged forger contained a genuine signature of the stockholder torn from his ledger, and that in the same desk were other completed and partly completed signatures, imitating the genuine signature; and such signatures are admissible.</p> <p>Measure of damages — Transfer of forged stock.</p> <p>Where stock is wrongfully transferred under a forged power of attorney, it seems that the measure of damages in an action against the company is the market price of the stock at the time of the transfer.</p> <p>Actions — Parties—Tortious conversion — Efew trustee.</p> <p>An action for an alleged tortious conversion of property while under the dominion of the executors and trustees is rightly brought in the name of the administrator and trustee d. b. n. c. t. a. after the removal of the original trustee.</p>