Springer v. Hutchinson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, on a promissory note. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the Court.
If two names, according to the ordinary rules of pronouncing the English language, may be sounded alike, without doing violence to the letters found in the variant orthography, the names are idem sonans, and the variance is prima faeie immaterial.
Courts are not fastidious in enforcing absolute precision in respect to orthography. Books v. State, 83 Ala. 79; Donnell v. United States, 1 Morris (Iowa) 141; Capan v. The People, 58 Ill. 163; Cutting v. Conklin, 28 Ill. 506; Donald v. People, 47 Ill. 534; Rivard v. Gardner, 39 Ill.…
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