Legal Opinion

Vehon v. Vehon

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 15, 1897PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Assumpsit, on a promissory note. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary

This is an action by the appellee against the appellant upon a promissory note, commenced bv attachment.

The defense is that the note was without consideration, upon which subject the evidence most favorable to the appellee is that the father of 'the appellant was indebted to the appellee, his brother; was in business in Iowa, and the appellant wished to move his father and mother and the goods to Galesburg, Illinois.

There is, at the most, a suggestion in the testimony that the appellant feared that the appellee would make some trouble about such removal, and so with no communication between…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Heaps v. DunhamIllinois Supreme Court · 1880

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Plowman v. Indian Refining Co.District Court, E.D. Illinois · 1937
  2. Harmon v. SwiftAppellate Court of Illinois · 1932
  3. Funk v. HossackAppellate Court of Illinois · 1906
  4. Beggs v. First National BankAppellate Court of Illinois · 1907
  5. Turner v. PorterAppellate Court of Illinois · 1931

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