Work v. Tibbits’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““* * * But in this case the pledgors did not have title to the stock pledged. In making the pledge they acted without right. What these plaintiffs [pledgees] attempted to accomplish was, not to establish that their pledgor had title, but that plaintiffs were purchasers in good faith from them while they were in possession and clothed with apparent ownership, and therefore, as against the real owners, were entitled to so much of the proceeds as should be required to satisfy the pledge. The suits were therefore of no benefit to the pledgors, nor was the defense undertaken in such belief. Hence, there was no implied authority to defend in their behalf, and, in defending, the pledgees acted solely for their own benefit, and it would seem that they were entitled to no further reimbursement than the law generally affords to successful litigants.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haas v. Haas