Stelle v. Palmer

The defendant was arrested, by order, on the 4th day of August, 1858, upon a complaint supported by an affidavit, which stated his being employed by the plaintiff as an agent and broker to invest moneys upon stocks and other good securities, in order to obtain a larger rate of interest than a savings-bank paid him. That the defendant made repeated *63representations of his own responsibility, as well as knowledge, and the plaintiff advanced him moneys from time to time, which were invested in certain securities. Other allegations of deception were made, but chiefly that some of the securities…