Hoops v. Wells Fargo & Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Perry L. Persons, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McSurely
Wells Fargo & Company sued out of this court a writ of ‘error to review a judgment obtained against it by William H. Hoops in the municipal court upon a trial by the court. The facts are as follows: William H. Hoops, hereinafter called plaintiff, was the owner of a coat and two steamer rugs, claimed to he of the value of two hundred dollars, which he caused to he shipped from Merced, California, to San Francisco, and marked “William Hoops, care of Steamship Manchuria, San Francisco, Cal.” The shipment was transported to San Fracisco, and a driver of the defendant took the same to the docks of…
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- Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. MerrillIllinois Supreme Court · 1868
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