# Currie v. White > The Superior Court of New York City · May 3, 1869 · 1 Sweeny 166 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8372350 ## Case - **Full name:** CHARLES P. CURRIE, and v. CUMBERLAND G. WHITE, and - **Court:** The Superior Court of New York City - **Decided:** May 3, 1869 - **Citations:** 1 Sweeny 166 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Concurrence by McCunn - **Judges:** Freedman, McCunn - **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8372350 ## Opinion text McCunn, J. (concurring). This case, though very elaborately argued, is susceptible, as I understand it, of a simple solution. The contract speaks for itself. It is to sell and purchase by the respective parties one thousand shares of the capital stock of the Hudson River Railroad Company. This agreement is set out in the complaint as the foundation of the action. If either expressly nor by implication does- the contract impose upon the respondent an obligation to deliver to the appellants any thing beside these one thousand shares, nor confer on the appellants any other right than to demand and receive delivery of these same shares. And surely the rights and obligations inter se of the parties to the contract could not be affected by the action of strangers, i.