Ulery v. Ginrich
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. A. J. Gallagher, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Ginrich upon a promissory note executed in the firm name of Ulery & Hudgins, and also by Owen J. Doyle and Isaac Wilson.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. A. J. Gallagher, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Ginrich upon a promissory note executed in the firm name of Ulery & Hudgins, and also by Owen J. Doyle and Isaac Wilson. It appears the firm name of Ulery & Hudgins was signed by the latter, and among other pleas the defendant Ulery, by his third plea, which was verified by affidavit, denied the existence of the partnership at the time the note was executed, and denied the authority of Hudgins to execute the same in the name of the firm. Issue was formed upon…
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The third plea of appellant, sworn to, put in issue the existence of a partnership on the 15th of April, 1867, the day the note in suit, was executed. It was proved by a great preponderance of evidence, in the proportion of four to one, and that one the party who executed the note in the firm name, that the copartnership which had been formed in the fall of 1864, to purchase and sell cattle and other stock, was ended in the spring of 1866, about the close of the month of May of that year. /This fact is well established, and the verdict is against the weight of evidence.
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