Gray v. Ellis

THE COURT.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial. The case was tried with a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for the full amount claimed.

The action is one to recover $2,250 paid by plaintiff to Ellis & Church on account of a subscription for the purchase of certain corporate stock, which money, it is substantially alleged, was diverted by Ellis & Church to payment on account of a subscription for stock in another and a different corporation from the one for whose stock he had subscribed, viz.,…