STATE v. HENEAULT

No. 80-178.

121 N.H. 497 (1981)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. ARTHUR J. HENEAULT

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

June 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory H. Smith, attorney general (Thomas P. Colantuono, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State.

Dalton, Dalton & Bryden, of Andover, Massachusetts (Charles F. Dalton, Jr., on the brief and orally), for the defendant.


DOUGLAS, J.

In this case we must decide whether the defendant's modified "circle of gold" chain letter scheme constitutes a sale of securities for the purposes of RSA ch. 421. We hold that it does not.

Sometime in the spring of 1979, the defendant became involved with "circle of gold" chain letters. To buy a letter, each purchaser paid fifty dollars to a seller and fifty dollars to the person whose name was first on a list in the letter. The purchaser then...

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