Meyers v. Andrews

This was assumpsit, in the Whiteside circuit court, by John H. Meyers & Co., doing business as commission merchants and dealers in butter and eggs, in the city of Hew York, plaintiffs, and against Edgar E. Andrews, a dealer in the same articles in the city of Sterling, in this State, defendant. The claim of plaintiffs was for money overpaid defendant on consignments of butter and eggs. The plea was non-assumpsit, with a plea of set-off claiming as under the common counts, accompanied by a bill of particulars.

There was a trial by jury, and a verdict returned for the defendant, on which…