Hoge v. First National Bank
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaby, Judge, presiding. In June, 1875, Edward Sanford, a lawyer, and engaged in negotiating loans on real estate at Morris, Grundy county, Illinois, received a letter from Chebanse, Iroquois county, Illinois, applying for a loan of §1,500, on eighty acres of land situated in Will county, about four miles from Loekport.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaby, Judge, presiding. In June, 1875, Edward Sanford, a lawyer, and engaged in negotiating loans on real estate at Morris, Grundy county, Illinois, received a letter from Chebanse, Iroquois county, Illinois, applying for a loan of §1,500, on eighty acres of land situated in Will county, about four miles from Loekport. The letter was in the handwriting of J. P. H. Trescott and on one of his letter-heads, and was signed “William Bobins.” With the letter came a loan application made out. on one of Sanford’s blanks, which were…
1Opinion of the CourtMoran, J.
The contention of the appellant is, that the indorsement of the name William Robins on the draft, was a forgery, and a largo number of cases are cited to us by counsel, many of them similar, in some of their features, to this case, in which courts have held indorsements to be forgeries-Of those cited, Dodge v. The National Exchange Bank, 30 Ohio St. 1; Palm v. Walt, 7 Hun, 317; Kohn v. Watkins, 2 Kansas, 691, and the Agricultural Investment Company v. The Federal Bank, 45 Upper Canada, Queen’s Bench, 214, seem to be nearest in support of counsel’s contention. In the Ohio case one Frederick B.…
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