Variety Manufacturing Co. v. Mills Novelty Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edward A. Dicker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holdom
The Municipal Court rendered a judgment for $877 in favor of appellee against appellant on the verdict of a jury, in an effort to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.
Appellant argues, as reasons for reversal, that the contract sued upon was not its contract, but the obligation of the Mills Edisonia Company; that the Municipal Court erred in its rulings upon the evidence, and that the judgment is contrary to the law and the evidence.
We are met at the threshold of this cause with the embarrassing fact that there is a similarity between the names of the two corporations involved in the…
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