Citizens Securities & Investment Co. v. Dennis

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, the Citizens Securities and Investment Company, from a judgment in the municipal court of Chicago, in favor of the defendant, F. R. Beimis, in an action brought by the plaintiff on five promissory notes payable to and indorsed by the defendant.

The first question to be considered is a preliminary question presented by a motion of counsel for the defendant that the action should abate because of the death of the defendant, which occurred July 14, 1924. Prior to that date, namely, June 3, 1924, counsel for the plaintiff filed the brief and abstract of the…