Goodrich v. Tenney
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Loren C. Collins, Judge, presiding. Appellant filed his bill in the court below setting forth the making of a written agreement between him and one of the appellees, which agreement provided in substance that D. K. Tenney on behalf of appellees should endeavor to get control of all the claims against L. L. Smith, late of Omaha, with power to compromise and settle them at certain rates mentioned in said agreement, and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Loren C. Collins, Judge, presiding. Appellant filed his bill in the court below setting forth the making of a written agreement between him and one of the appellees, which agreement provided in substance that D. K. Tenney on behalf of appellees should endeavor to get control of all the claims against L. L. Smith, late of Omaha, with power to compromise and settle them at certain rates mentioned in said agreement, and that appellant undertook to furnish the affidavits of L. L. Smith and other parties, of the facts of a sale by said Smith…
1Opinion of the Court
Watermal J.
This is a most extraordinary bill. Briefly stated, appellant comes into a court of equity, setting up and asking to have enforced a written agreement, utterly void, and which no court either of law or equity would think of enforcing. In addition to this he deliberately states that he made a mock surrender of the agreement, for the purpose of enabling one of appellees to falsely testify, if called, that there was no such contract, and that he, appellant, then falsely asserted, when interrogated by the solicitors for the defendant in that case, that he had no such contract and no…
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