Brown v. Canty

On the trial before the jury, a verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiffs for the amount of plaintiffs’ claim, with interest. The defendant moved the court to set aside this verdict, and from its refusal so to do the defendant has appealed, assigning as error the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict, and also certain rulings on evidence.

From the evidence, the jury might reasonably have found that the plaintiffs were commission brokers, selling and buying sugar and other commodities for customers for a commission, and dealing through members of various commodity exchanges. The…