Moss v. Shreve

Plaintiff, a stock broker, brought suit to recover from defendant approximately $2,500 claimed upon a stated account as an accrued balance from marginal purchases and sales of stocks. Defendant, by recoupment, sought to recover' from plaintiff damages alleged to have resulted from plaintiff’s failure to sell all of defendant’s stock on or about September 15, 1932, as ordered by defendant. At the close of the proofs three special questions were submitted to, and answered by, the jury. Thereafter the circuit'judge, acting in accord with the jury’s determinations and on defendant’s motion,…