Hoechster v. State Commercial & Savings Bank

This is a suit to recover $666 alleged to have been paid by plaintiffs to defendant on December 11, 191.6, to be applied by the latter to the purchase of Austrian war bonds to the amount of 2,500 kronen and a similar amount of Hungarian war bonds. The declaration alleged a failure to purchase and deliver the bonds as agreed. Defendant’s affidavit of merits alleged that the original order for the bonds was given by plaintiffs at Chicago, February 8, 1916, in conformity with which defendant purchased the bonds in question, and further alleged a full compliance with the subsequent instructions…