Edwards v. Jenkins

On March 14, 1927, plaintiff directed the defendant Logan & Bryan, a copartnership engaged in the stock brokerage business in the city and county of San Francisco and elsewhere, and a member of the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges in the United States, with its principal office in the city of New York, to purchase for him 500 shares of the preferred stock of the Julian Petroleum Corporation, at a price not to exceed $12 per share, with the instruction to said brokers, so he testified, to keep it subject to his order, as he was…