Berry v. Chase
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. Action by Jacob Berry and Harold L. Bennett, copartners as Jacob Berry & Co., for the use of John P. Darwent, against Mattie L. Chase and Ike A. Chase, executors of the last will and testament of William J. Chase, deceased. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, Jacob Berry & Co.-, a firm of stock brokers doing business in the city of New York, brought this suit, for the use and benefit of Darwent as assignee of their claim, to recover the loss alleged, to have been sustained by them through their purchase to cover a short sale of 25 shares' of Northern Pacific Railway stock, made by the direction of.Schloss, Miller & Malone, a Memphis, Tenn., brokerage firm, which 'firm is alleged to have acted in the transaction on ■ behalf of Chase as undisclosed principal. Upon a former trial verdict was directed for the…
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