Hunt v. Rosenbaum Grain Corp.

Appellee, Graham P. Hunt, as receiver of Roberts & Hall, a brokerage firm of Cincinnati, Ohio, recovered a judgment in the superior court of Cook county against the Rosenbaum Grain Corporation, appellant, for $12,798.36. The action was based on the receipt and alleged conversion by appellant of the proceeds of certain dividend checks and stock dividends claimed by appellee. From that judgment appellant has prosecuted an appeal to this court. One of the issues involved is the constitutionality of the statute regulating jury trials.

Roberts & Hall was a co-partnership engaged in the brokerage…