Dodge v. McMahan

This was an action to recover money “loaned to tbe defendant, and paid for bis use and benefit.” Tbe answer was a general denial. Tbe plaintiffs offered evidence tending to prove-that tbe defendant employed them, as commission men, to buy for bim 5,000 bushels of wheat for future delivery, on a margin of five cents per bushel, and at tbe same time requested them, if this margin should be exhausted by a decline in tbe market, not to allow bim to be “sold out,” but to put up the additional margins for him, and then advise bim -or draw on bim for tbe amount; that tbe amount sued for was money…