Certified Roofing Co. v. Jeffrion

Certified Roofing Company, a commercial partnership composed of Harry H. Solomon and P.M. Smith, allege that they were holders of a certain mortgage note for $625, with interest and attorney's fees, and that through error of fact, which was to some extent induced from a fraud practiced upon their attorney by the endorser of the note, P.J.E. Dejoie, one of the defendants in this suit, their said attorney, H.L. Midlo, accepted from the said Dejoie $300 in full settlement of the said note and surrendered it to the said Dejoie. They allege that their said attorney, on discovering his error,…