NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, § 367.1 — when judgment against holders of stolen government bonds will be affirmed. On appeal by defendants from judgment on verdict for plaintiff in action to recover value of government bonds which had been stolen from her and which defendants, who were pawnbrokers and not in bond business, had purchased after their theft, held, as against defendants' contentions regarding burden of proof as to holding of bonds in due course and regarding instructions to jury — it not being argued that verdict was against manifest weight of evidence, that judgment would be affirmed (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 98, par. 79; Jones Ill. Rev. State. 89.079).
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Opinion by JUSTICE MATCHETT.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed December 11, 1944; rehearing denied December 26, 1944; released for publication December 27, 1944.