Smith v. City of Chicago

Plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs and defendant in error defendant in the trial court. The declaration is in trover. The cause was tried by the court, without a jury, on the following stipulation of facts:

“ It is hereby stipulated and agreed between the respective parties to the above and foregoing suit, that the following facts are true and are admitted by both parties to the above suit to be true, as hereinafter set forth.

“ 1. That at all the various times in the declaration mentioned the plaintiffs constituted a voluntary association doing business as the West Pullman Land Association,…