Yeomans v. Brown

At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence on the trial of an assumpsit suit, the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and a judgment against plaintiff followed, which by this writ he seeks to reverse.

One of the grounds stated by the court for directing the verdict was that the evidence “does not sustain the allegations of the declaration.” Plaintiff’s one special count charged in substance that on July 1,1921, in consideration that plaintiff, as owner of certain shares of stock of the American Metal Products. Company (an Dlinois corporation and hereinafter referred…