Woodlawn Trust & Savings Bank v. Donaho

Mr. Presiding Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.

By this appeal the defendant seeks to reverse a judgment for $300, recovered against him by the plaintiff bank in the municipal court of Chicago.

It appears* from the record that one Mitchell, purporting to represent a concern described as “J. W. Griffith & Co.,” called upon the defendant, Donaho, soliciting his purchase of bonds, and the defendant agreed to purchase, through Mitchell, a certain $500 bond, which Mitchell promised to deliver to the defendant at his office within the following day or two. In part payment for the…