Diversey v. Smith
Illinois Supreme Court
•• Appeals from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writs of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding.
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•• Appeals from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writs of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. The first of these actions, Diversey v. Smith, was an action of debt, brought by John Diversey, for use, etc., a creditor of the Germania Insurance Company, a corporation organized under an act of the legislature of this State for the business of fire insurance, against Solomon A. Smith, appellee’s testator, who was a stockholder in the corporation, to enforce his individual liability as a corporator under the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholeield
In these cases the facts are, in all material respects, similar, and the single question presented by the record, and discussed in arguments of counsel, is common to both. In each the action is debt, upon a policy of insurance issued by a company which was organized under a special charter enacted by the General Assembly long prior to July 1, 1869, ' against a stockholder of the company, who had become such by making, and performing on his part, a contract of subscription for stock, prior, also, to July 1, 1869. Judgments were rendered in the Superior Court of Cook county for the defendants.…
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