Beard v. Converse
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge, presiding. The declaration is in assumpsit, and contains only a single special count, in which it is alleged, in consideration of the donation by plaintiff to the “ Springfield Iron Company ” of certain lands as a location for “steel works” then and there to be constructed, and that that company would take and receive from defendants all the coal that might be necessary to be used in and about…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge, presiding. The declaration is in assumpsit, and contains only a single special count, in which it is alleged, in consideration of the donation by plaintiff to the “ Springfield Iron Company ” of certain lands as a location for “steel works” then and there to be constructed, and that that company would take and receive from defendants all the coal that might be necessary to be used in and about the steel works of the iron company, soon to be constructed, upon the same terms and for the same length of time as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The making of a contract with plaintiff to pay him a certain sum if he would deed to the iron company what land they wanted as a location for steel works to be constructed, and secure from that company an agreement to take from defendants coal, in such quantities as might be required for the additional works of the company, upon the same terms and for the same period as specified in the original agreement between the parties, is not denied, but defendants maintain they are exonerated from performing it by reason of that provision, which plaintiff insisted upon having in the Written agreement,…
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