Perin v. Parker

This was an action upon the common counts in assumpsit, brought by Parker, a commission merchant of Chicago, doing business on the board of trade, against Perin, a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, to recover for money advanced by the former to the latter and commissions earned in the course of execution by Parker, of the employment by him as such merchant by Perin, December 30, 1882, to sell for the latter upon the Chicago Bear'd of Trade, 50,000 bushels of corn, of which 25,000 bushels were to be delivered in January, and the same quantity in May, then next. Upon trial by jury the plaintiff…