Hills v. Hopp

This case comes to this court upon a petition for a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Appellate Court reversing a judgment of the municipal court in favor of plaintiff in error here for costs and rendering judgment in the Appellate Court in favor of defendant in error here for $1200 and costs of suit.

Six individuals brought separate suits in the municipal court of Chicago against Joseph Hopp, plaintiff in error, to recover back from him money they had paid for stock in the Standard Theatres Company, a corporation of which Hopp was president and active manager. The statement of…