Oakley v. United Finance Corp.

In an action to recover the value of certain shares of stock in the Aetna Acceptance Company of the par value of $7,600 and upon trial by jury, the court, at the close of all the evidence, denied a motion of the defendant to instruct in its favor and granted the motion of plaintiff for an instructed verdict in the sum of $9,365, overruled the motion of defendant for a new trial, and entered judgment on the verdict. The defendant has appealed.

The action was based upon two sections of two statutes: First, section 28 of the General Corporation Act of 1919 as amended (Cahill’s Ill. St. 1931, ch.…