case monk against graham if a agent entrust by a stockholder to receive the  yearly dividend make a fraudulent sale of the stock by mean of a pretend power  of attorney and transfer it by personate the proprietor and abscond the  proprietor may recover the original price pay for the stock in a action of  trover against the vendee one Hackett buy stock to the value of seven hundred  and fifty pound in the three subscription in the south sea company and receive  fifty pound ayear for it and afterward sell it which by several mesne  conveyance come to the dow plaintiff mrs monk who purchase it for a thousand  pound she live in the country entrust one rise who be a officer of the  exchequer with the minute and all order to receive this fifty pound ayear for  her use the say rise be then a man of credit and discount for at least thirty  thousand pound ayear of the revenue afterward rise pretend that he have a  power to sell the say stock make a agreement in write with the defendant  Graham to sell it to he for nine hundred and ninetyfour pound and tell he the  plaintiff will sign the transfer but be get another woman to personate the  plaintiff and to sign the transfer by Geo c this be now make felony without  benefit of clergy see I hawk p c ch a and at the next open of the book of the  company be get the same transfer to the defendant and make affidavit of the  sale and get it enter in the say book this be require by Act of parliament to  every transfer and then he withdraw himself out of the kingdom so that be can  not be find the plaintiff bear that rise be withdraw come to London and demand  the stock of the defendant who tell her that he have buy it of rise and have  get the minute the transfer and the affidavit which be all the conveyance the  law can give and believe that if she have a title she have nothing to show to  make it appear and therefore she come too late to make any demand on he  afterward the defendant though forbid by the plaintiff sell this stock for one  thousand and ninety pound to t S who sell it again to r W for eleven hundred  and nine pound and then the plaintiff bring a action of trover against the  defendant and sir Peter king chief justice notwithstanding her folly ill trust  rise with the minute which the counsel for the defendant do much rely on  direct the jury to find for the plaintiff which they lid and give her no more  than seven hundred and fifty pound damage modern report michaelmas term the  eight of George the first in the king bench sir John Pratt Knt chief justice  sir Littleton powys Knt sir Robert Eyre Knt sir John fortescue aland Knt  justice sir Robert Raymond Knt attorneygeneral sir Philip York Knt solicitor  general