Stewart v. Johnson

In this action the plaintiff is seeking damages for a breach of contract, depending for his proof upon certain letters and telegrams. Evidence was introduced to show that in the month of February, 1910, the plaintiff was carrying on margin with a brokerage firm one thousand shares of the common stock of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, hereinafter called the Smelting Company, and ten shares of United Shoe Machinery Corporation stock; that about February 4,1910, upon receipt of a demand from the brokers for payment of $10,000, he telegraphed the defendant asking him to…