Eisenschmidt v. Conway

Action by H. C. Eisenschmidt, as plaintiff, against R. M. Conway and Lawrence Mills, as defendants. From an order and judgment sustaining a motion of defendants for a directed verdict, plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff’s petition in this case was based upon alleged fraud in the procurement from him by defendants of an assignment of a certain judgment held and owned by him, the facts leading up to this action being substantially as follows:

In 1926 John J. Black and wife executed three notes to the Exchange Trust Company, two of said notes being in the sum of $2,060 each and the third in the sum of…