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Brant v. Gallup

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 22, 1885PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Appéal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon, M, F, Fully, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought on the 6th day of October, 1876, by Daniel B. Brant, against Benjamin E. Gallup and Francis B. Peabody.

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Appéal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon, M, F, Fully, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought on the 6th day of October, 1876, by Daniel B. Brant, against Benjamin E. Gallup and Francis B. Peabody. The declaration substantially avers that Gallup & Peabody were loan agents, and on April 1, 1869, negotiated a loan from one Bourne, to Brant, of $45,000, payable in five years, and for security to Bourne took Brant’s mortgage on certain property and the Dearborn theatre, in Chicago;…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walkeb

This case is now before us on rehearing. We have reviewed the record and the grounds of our former decision with much care and patience, and given the questions the fullest and best consideration that the time at our disposal enabled us to bestow. We have labored under the disadvantage of having a large record loaded with immaterial matter, and no clear and compact statement of the facts given; but we have endeavored to fully comprehend the case and all the questions involved. With voluminous records, containing more irrelevant than pertinent matter, we find it of great difficulty to perform…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Morris v. PrestonIllinois Supreme Court · 1879

3Cited by23 opinions

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  2. Roberts v. LehlColorado Court of Appeals · 1915
  3. Flower v. BrumbachIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
  4. Aldrich v. AldrichAppellate Court of Illinois · 1931
  5. Sutter v. RoseIllinois Supreme Court · 1897

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