Wilson v. Williams

This case in many respects is like that of Wood v. Williams, 40 Ill. App. 115, and so far as the legal questions arising are identical, the views announced in that case will be adhered to in this.

Therefore we hold, for the reasons there stated, that there was no contract in writing, and that the statute of limitations of five years may be interposed, and that, assuming Woodrow & Eursman were the agents of Williams & Burr, the latter are not precluded from this defense by the fraudulent concealment of the cause of action by Woodrow & Eursman or either of them.

It is, however, insisted by…