Bell v. Farwell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. James Góggin, Judge, presiding.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. James Góggin, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit brought by James Bell against Charles B. Farwell, a stockholder in the Abilene Central Land Company, a Kansas corporation, to recover the amount of defendant’s alleged liability as such stockholder, to be applied in satisfaction of a balance remaining due on a judgment recovered by plaintiff against the corporation in one of the courts of Kansas. The declaration contained two counts. In…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
It is first insisted in the argument that the provision of the constitution of Kansas set out in the declaration is self-executing, and intended to take effect without any legislation. We do not concur in that view. It is apparent from the reading of the provision itself that legislation was contemplated in order that it might be properly enforced, otherwise the last clause, “and such other means as shall be provided by law,” would never have been incorporated in it. Moreover, this provision of the constitution of Kansas was involved in Tuttle v. National Bank of Republic, 161 Ill. 497, and…
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