Richards v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

The complainants, Richards, Maynard & Co., filed a bill in the Superior Court of Cook county, against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, the object of which was to recover unliquidated damages alleged to have been sustained by them by reason of the company’s failure to perform a certain contract entered into by it with Edward S. Richards, and by him assigned to the complainants. The Superior Court sustained a demurrer to the bill, and entered an order dismissing the same for want of equity, which, on appeal, was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District, whence…