Butcher v. Newburger

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

Defendants, who are stockbrokers, appeal from the judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, in an action to recover back the amount paid by plaintiff for certain stock purchased by them for him. The purchase was made by the manager of defendants’ office at Atlantic City, N. J., who was authorized to act for them throughout, and all the other matters hereinafter detailed, down to the time of bringing suit, were had with him person ally, and not with defendants or any of them, save as he was their alter ego. Defendants offered no evidence at the trial,…