Hodgens v. Shultz
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, on an oral contract of subscription. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1900.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Presiding Justice Higbee
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit in assumpsit brought by appellee to recover $140 for two installments of a verbal subscription or agreement alleged by him to have been made by appellant, to pay $350 in five annual payments of $70 each, for the purpose of securing the location of the postoffice in a certain district in Monmouth, Illinois.
The declaration contained only the common counts to which the general issue was interposed by appellant. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee for $140, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Curtis v. SageIllinois Supreme Court · 1864
- Fraser v. GatesIllinois Supreme Court · 1885
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