Laura v. Crane Bros. Manufacturing Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. McBoberts, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bbeese
This was assumpsit, in the Superior Court of Cook county, by Crane Brothers Manufacturing Company against Laura M. Penny, as guarantor of a promissory note made by the firm of Penny, Weeks & Company to I. J. Spalding & Company, for eighteen hundred dollars, payable forty days after date, at the First National Bank, with interest thereon at ten per cent, and indorsed to plaintiff.
The defendant filed three special pleas, upon which issues were made up, and afterwards, by leave of the court, filed the plea of the general issue.
The cause was tried by a jury, and resulted in a verdict for the…
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