Edwards v. Armour Packing Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Appellee.recovered a judgment in assumpsit against the appellant and others, in the superior court of Cook county, for the price of 150 tons of steam bone-meal, which, as it was alleged by appellee, the appellant and others became liable to pay under section 18 of the act concerning corporations for pecuniary profit, by assuming to act as the officers and agents of a pretended corporation called “Thompson & Edwards Fertilizer Company,” in the purchase of said material, without having complied with said statute and filed in the recorder’s office of Cook county a certificate of the Secretary of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Loverin v. McLaughlinIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
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