Bissell v. City of Kankakee
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Charles H. Wood, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The declaration is in debt, and counts on ten bonds, each for the sum of five hundred dollars, issued by the city of Kan-kakee to “ The Douglas Linen Company,” and by that company endorsed and delivered to the appellants.
The appellee filed two pleas : first, nil debet, and second, now est factum, upon which issue is joined.
The special pleas in bar of the action are in substance the same. The principal averments are, that the several causes of action in the several counts of the declaration are for one and the same thing, viz: for the bonds or writings obligatory therein declared on, and for.…
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