Hall v. Cox
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
This is an action of assumpsit begun on February 6th, 1891, in the Circuit Court of Cook County by the appellee against the appellants. The appellee is a banker, doing a banking business at Polo, Caldwell County, Missouri, under the name of the Exchange Bank of Polo. The appellants are partners under the firm name of Hall Bros., Griffith & Co., engaged in the business of selling cattle on commission at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois. Appellants had agents named John Akin and A. B. Akin, the latter being the son of the former, in said Caldwell County, whose business it was to buy…
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