Perkins v. Dole

Plaintiff, by this writ of error, seeks to reverse a judgment for costs entered against him and in favor of defendant, after a directed verdict, by said superior court on December 19, 1924, in an . action of assumpsit, based upon the Illinois “Securities Law” of 1919, and particularly upon section 37 thereof. [Callaghan’s 1920 St. ¶ 2675 (37).]

Prior to the passage of the amendatory act, in force July 1, 1921, amending certain sections of that law, including section 37, plaintiff, at the earnest solicitation of defendant and one J. H. Hanson, acting as agents of the Indian Petroleum Company…