Orthwein-Matchette Investment Co. v. McFarlin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The action in the district court was to recover a broker’s commissions and margins for the purchase and sale on the defendant’s account of grain on the board of trade of Kansas City, Mo., and Chicago, 111. The court sustained a demurrer to the petition, and rendered judgment against the plaintiff for costs, from which the plaintiff has appealed.

Twelve separate causes of action are set out in the petition, each based upon a similar transaction, and the facts pleaded are substantially the same. In one count it is alleged that on the 27th day…