Pardridge v. Cutler

This suit was assumpsit by appellee, a broker doing a commission business on the Chicago Board of Trade under the name of Cutler & Co., against appellant, to recover for certain moneys alleged to have been lost, and commissions earned, in certain transactions in the purchase and sale of grain by appellee for appellant on said board in the years 1892 and 1893. The declaration was the common counts and the pleas general issue and six special pleas, setting up in different form and in substance that the transactions in question were gambling transactions under the statute, and illegal. Issues…