Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. v. Reno
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District, affirming a judgment of the Superior Court of Cook county, recovered by the appellees, against appellant, for damages for the non-performance of a certain contract in writing, dated July 28, 1880. In 1856, Abner Beeves purchased all that part of block 63, school section addition to Chicago, bounded on the north by Forquer street, on the east by…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sheldon
There are only two grounds upon which the reversal of the judgment is urged in this court, viz., first, that the questions involved in this record were, so far as the appellant is concerned, res judicata at the time of the institution of this suit; second, that this record contains no evidence in support of the alleged non-performance by appellant of the contract in question.
The former adjudication which is insisted upon, is the decree in the chancery suit against the appellant for specific performance. As the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy company alone appealed from that decree, it is…
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