Samuels v. Oliver
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph B. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by appellees, to recover a balance of $1368.92 alleged to be due them from appellants, and also for damages for the failure of appellants to deliver 80,000 bushels of wheat, which they had bought, as brokers, for appellees.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph B. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by appellees, to recover a balance of $1368.92 alleged to be due them from appellants, and also for damages for the failure of appellants to deliver 80,000 bushels of wheat, which they had bought, as brokers, for appellees. The declaration contains two special counts and the common counts. The first special count is based on the neglect of the defendants to require sufficient margins…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
In the spring and summer of 1882, appellees undertook to run what is known as a “corner” in No. 2 red winter wheat, in the St. Louis market, and for that purpose, and to aid them in bringing about that result, employed appellants and eight or nine other brokers of the city of St. Louis, and through these agencies secured contracts for the sale of large quantities of wheat, to be delivered on or before the last day of June, 1882, and aggregating about 1,100,000 bushels. At the same time, through these same agencies, appellees bought up and secured substantially all of that grade of…
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