Mruk v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

In this proceeding the plaintiff, owner of four bonds which he had delivered to the defendant, Chicago Title & Trust Co., as depositary for the committee for the protection of bondholders of property under foreclosure, and for which bonds he had received a certificate of deposit which was subsequently stolen from him and to which his signature had been forged in an assignment thereof, sought relief against defendant because it refused to deliver to him certain shares of stock in a corporation which had been organized to take over…