Boyd v. Jacobs

JAMES, Chief Justice.

Appellant brought this suit to recover of appellee the sum of $2650, and interest thereon at 8 per cent per annum from September 29, 1886. The allegations were, in substance, that in August, 1885, plaintiff, whose husband had just died, placed all of her capital of $8000 in cash, derived from insurance, etc., in defendant’s hands, to be invested by him for her use and benefit on interest at 8 per cent per annum, and that the sum sued for is the balance of said sum yet due from defendant to plaintiff. That she was ignorant of business affairs, and left the above, being all…