Jackson v. Peerless Portland Cement Co.

Plaintiff is an elderly lady who lives alone on a farm in Branch county. She was the owner of 200 shares of stock of the Peerless Portland Cement Company. On a September day in 1925 a stranger called on her and represented himself to be an agent of the Peerless Portland Cement Company. He showed her a forged telegram which purported to have been sent to him by the secretary of the cement company, ordering him to take up her stock. He also exhibited to her a forged letter which purported to have been written by the secretary of the company, directing him to take up the stock, and stating the…