Oldershaw v. Knoles

The only questions to be considered in this case arise upon the refusal of the court below to admit certain evidence offered on behalf of the appellants. The suit,was brought by the appellants to recover of the appellee a sum due them as commissions, and also certain payments of money which they claim to have made for appellee in settling and closing up certain grain transactions on the Board of Trade of Chicago, entered into by them at the instance, and on behalf of appellee.

At the time in question the appellants were commission merchants in Chicago, engaged, among other things, in the…