Jacquith v. Mason

Some time prior to October, 1909, this plaintiff, being the owner of 201- shares of the face value of $100 each of the capital stock of the Underwriters Insurance Company, placed the same in the hands of Burns, a stock broker, for sale. Afterwards Burns sold the stock for $75 a share. Soon afterwards, the stock was sold to one Montgomery for $110 a share. Plaintiff began this action in the district court for Douglas county against William C. Sunderland and Sherman Saunders, alleging that Sunderland was a stockholder, director and president of the Nebraska Underwriters Insurance Company, and…