Barrell v. Paine

The defendants’ first contention is that St. 1919, c. 247, amending R. L. c. 99, § 4, under which the case at bar is brought, defeats the plaintiffs’ right of recovery. But, even if the amendatory act, passed after the transactions in question had been completed, is to be read with the original statute, Wilson v. Head, 184 Mass. 515, the evidence does not show that the “odd lot” transactions, to which we shall later refer, were purchases, or sales, to be received or delivered by the defendants by “direction of the clearing house” of “a stock exchange or board of trade.” The defendants…