Richelieu Hotel Co. v. International Military Encampment Co.

This is another action in assumpsit upon the same subscription paper set out in the foregoing case.

These cases met below, and meet here, the same result. So much of the opinion in that case as is applicable to this, will not be repeated here.

In this case the appellant filed a special plea attacking the consideration. As that defense, if true, was admissible under the general issue, it is no error that a demurrer was sustained to the plea, whether it was good or bad. The cases are collected in Wineman v. O’Berne, 40 Ill. App. 269.

The president of the company testified to some promises made by…