Cook v. Shipman
Illinois Supreme Court
The facts of this case are stated in the opinion. The instructions mentioned, as having been refused by the court below, were as follows: 5. That if the jury believe, from the evidence, that thefe was, before the execution of this bond, any understanding between Granger, then an alderman of the said city, and the plaintiff and defendant, that Shipman should be employed by the defendant to procure the passage of certain ordinances touching the lands of the defendant, and that…
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The facts of this case are stated in the opinion. The instructions mentioned, as having been refused by the court below, were as follows: 5. That if the jury believe, from the evidence, that thefe was, before the execution of this bond, any understanding between Granger, then an alderman of the said city, and the plaintiff and defendant, that Shipman should be employed by the defendant to procure the passage of certain ordinances touching the lands of the defendant, and that the said Granger at the time promised to use his influence or exert himself to secure the passage thereof, and if they…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was an action of debt, instituted by Ship-man against Cook, on a bond given by the latter to the former, for the sum of two thousand dollars. It was conditioned for the payment of one thousand dollars to the obligee, when the common council of the city of Chicago should pass an ordinance which, should in effect, change the location of so much of the dock line recently established by the common council, as lay in front of a lot of land therein described, and which was owned by Cook, and to so establish the dock line that it would run parallel, or nearly so, with, and at a distance of…
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