City of Chicago v. Nicholson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action commenced before justice of the peace. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Homer Abbott, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for $138.14 entered upon a directed verdict for the plaintiff in an action originally brought before a justice of the peace.
The evidence shows that the fire marshal of Chicago gave to the plaintiffs orders for seventy-five boxes of a certain compound used for cleaning steam boilers; that the price quoted by plaintiffs to said marshal therefor was $1.75 per box; that the same was delivered to the city’s fire tug “Illinois,” and was used and consumed in cleaning the boilers of said fire tug; that said compound did its work to the satisfaction…
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