Elggren v. Woolley

The plaintiff’s hereinafter called appellants, as copartners' doing business under the name and style of Elggren Bros. & Co., brought this action against the defendant to recover the sum of $13,000 with legal interest.

In the complaint it is alleged that appellants, between the 18th day of January and the 9th day of July, 1917, had "invested in bonds of the Montana-Utah Sugar Company, a corporation, * * * in the sum of $9,500, and during the same period plaintiffs had also invested in capital stock of said sugar company in the sum of $3,500” for which stock certificates representing 165 shares…