Lyman B. Brooks Co. v. Wilson

This is an action against an attorney at law to recqver the price due to the plaintiff for one thousand steel stock certificate blanks of the Eastern Coal Company, a Massachusetts corporation.

It appeared at the trial that the defendant had signed the order, a copy of which is set forth below.* He there testified without objection that before this order was signed he had a talk over the telephone with the plaintiff’s treasurer or manager, in which he *207told the treasurer or manager about the financial standing of the Eastern Coal Company “and stated that the plaintiff must not look to him for…