Derdiger v. Thompson Ross & Co.

This is an appeal by Thompson Ross & Company, defendant, from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for $1,000 and costs of suit. The trial was by jury, and the judgment was entered upon a verdict directed by the court on motion of the plaintiff at the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence. The defendant offered no evidence.

On February 4, 1932, plaintiff filed a declaration in assumpsit, and in a special count charged in substance that on or about April 27, 1928, defendant sold plaintiff a certain note of the Hart Coal Corporation, and as an…