Papadopulos v. Bright

The plaintiff seeks to recover on a count for money had and received the amount of two payments made by him to the defendants. On December 2, 1925, he requested the defendants, as brokers, to purchase and sell for his account such stocks as he might order from time to time, and deposited with them $500. On December 4,1925, he ordered them to purchase fifty shares of the stock of a specified company. The evidence would justify the finding that on the same day, at the defendants’ request, these shares were purchased by their New York correspondents, who received delivery of and retained in…