Walters v. Short
Illinois Supreme Court
This suit was originally instituted before a justice of the peace of Brown County, by the appellee against the appellant, when a judgment was rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed to the Circuit Court, and at the April term, 1848, the Hon. Norman H. Purple presiding, the cause was tried by the Court, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $80-00 and costs. A copy of the instrument sued on is set forth in the Opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Opinion of the Court was delivered by
Trumbull, J.
Short sued Walters before a justice of the peace upon the following instrument in writing, to wit:
“Brown C’ty April the 1st 1847
Against the tenth day of July next I promise to deliver a't the
residence of James Short, Fifty dollars worth of good cattle, to be
two years old past, not more than two shall be heifers, any num- » thirty dollars worth .of saleable .cattle
ber above the fifty dollars worth will be received on the horse debt shall he delivered above the fifty $5 worth. all to be saleable cattle. Ezekiel Walters”
The words “thirty…
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