Taft v. Otte & Co.

In a trial before the court plaintiff recovered a judgment for $2,000, which included $240 as plaintiff’s attorney’s fees.

Plaintiff’s statement of claim alleges that defendant sold him 20 shares of stock of the Bank of the United States, a corporation, for $1,760; “that the . . . stock was not at the times of the aforesaid sales, securities in Class ‘A’, Class ‘B’ or Class ‘C’, as described in an Act . . . known as ‘ The Illinois Securities Law’; . . . that the right to sell the aforesaid stock in the State of Illinois, was not granted to the Bank . . . or to any broker, or agent, on the…