Chickering v. Bastress
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. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John P. Altgeld, Judge, presiding. This is an action of replevin to recover the possession of 17 pianos, valued in the affidavit for the writ at $6000.00. The action was brought in the Superior Court of Cook County on February 7, 1883, by the appellants, composing the firm of Chickering & Sons of New York City, against the appellees Julius Bastress of Chicago, and Seth F. Hanchett Sheriff of Cook County, and also against Alonzo Pelton, Andrew J. Pom-eroy and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
All the questions of fact involved in the case, including the question whether or not there was actual fraud on the part of the Chickerings and Cross, in entering into the agreement in question, were properly submitted to the jury under the instructions which were given, and are settled, so far as we are concerned, by the judgment of the Appellate Court.
The main question, which arises upon exceptions to the giving and refusal of instructions in the case, relates to the proper construction to be given to the agreement between Chickering ■& Sons and Pelton, Pomeroy & Cross. Upon this subject we…
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