Tallant v. Stedman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract or tort, to recover money fraudulently converted by the defendant to his own use. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In this case the plaintiff introduced evidence showing that she had been cheated by the defendant out of *461$1,152.50 in the following way. On the 15th of May, 1884, she gave to the defendant, who was a stockbroker in Boston, but not a member of the Boston Stock Exchange, an order to buy for her ten shares in the capital stock of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. On the next day$ between the hours of eight and half past eight o’clock in the morning, the defendant called at her house and told her that he had bought the ten shares of stock ordered at 115, and that his commission was…
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