Linton v. Porter
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Chicago; the Hon. YaN H. HiggiNS, Judge, presiding. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bbeese
This was an action brought before a justice of the peace on a promissory note made by the appellant to the appellee, the plaintiff below, and judgment for her. On appeal to the Superior Court of Chicago, the judgment was affirmed.
The defense was, want of consideration.
The facts are, that the plaintiff’s husband died possessed of an iron pile hammer, which the plaintiff sold and delivered to the defendant, receiving the note in suit in payment therefor.
The hammer is in defendant’s possession, and the sale and delivery to him, was a good consideration for the note. The plaintiff, by her sale of…
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