Mitchell v. McNab
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mason B. Loomis, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtPleasants, J.
Under a verbal agreement between the parties, appellee did two hundred rods of grading upon the streets of appellant’s subdivision of a tract of land at Arlington Heights. A dispute arose about the mode of payment provided by it,— appellant claiming that it was to be in average lots of the subdivision at $100 each, and appellee denying it and insisting on the cash. The latter brought his suit before a Justice of the Peace, which was appealed to the Circuit Court. On the trial the defendant introduced evidence tending to prove the contract as he claimed it to be, and there was no pretense that…
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