Eames v. Morgan
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the I-Ion. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the ease for deceit, brought in the Cook Circuit Court, by Lansing Morgan, Gilbert Morgan and Edwin L. Furniss, -against James H. Eames and William Eordham. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and there was a trial, and verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, to reverse which, the defendants bring this writ of error.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the I-Ion. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the ease for deceit, brought in the Cook Circuit Court, by Lansing Morgan, Gilbert Morgan and Edwin L. Furniss, -against James H. Eames and William Eordham. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and there was a trial, and verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, to reverse which, the defendants bring this writ of error. The counts in the declaration are substantially given in the opinion of the court. The bill of exceptions shows that on the 19th of June, 1861, Eames filed the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This is an action on the case for deceit on the part of plaintiffs in error, in selling a lot of land in Chicago, for a quantity of wood, they falsely representing the lot to be clear of incumbrance. A bond was executed by Eames, for the conveyance of the property, clear of incumbrance, on the delivery of the wood of the kind and quality, and at the place therein specified, Eames to retain possession of the lot until the wood should be delivered.
There are five counts in the declaration, all alleging in substance, that the defendants in error were induced, by the fraudulent acts and…
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