McDermid v. Cotton

This suit was brought by appellee to recover from appellants $425 in money placed in their hands by him, to be used in payment of margins on grain to be bought on speculation by them for him upon the Chicago Board of Trade. Appellee recovered a judgment in the court below for the full amount of said money and costs, whereupon appellants bring the record here, and allege that the court erred: first, in rejecting and receiving testimony; second, in its instructions to the jury; and third, in overruling appellants motion for a new trial.

Appellants, at the time of the transactions in question,…