Landt v. McCullough
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of debt. Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaby, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
The three points .made by the plaintiffs in error in their argument are:
First. The evidence was insufficient in law to support the verdict.
Second. The bond, even with the lease read into.it and offered in evidence, would have been so “vague, uncertain, indefinite and unintelligible as to render it void.”
Third. The bond is a penal bond, and the penalty cannot be construed as a sum absolute, but the damages must be proven.
In support of the first point the argument is that no proof of the lease mentioned in the bond, nor any proof of…
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