Lester v. Stevens
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill in chancery, filed by appellants against appellees. The statements of the bill are as follows: That Lester, being pressed for money, and being desirous to negotiate a loan, entered into a corrupt and usurious agreement with defendant Stevens, who is now and was then a resident of Chicago, and it was then usuriously, corruptly, and against the form of the statute, agreed between said Lester and Stevens, that Stevens should lend to Lester $2,000; that Lester…
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This was a bill in chancery, filed by appellants against appellees. The statements of the bill are as follows: That Lester, being pressed for money, and being desirous to negotiate a loan, entered into a corrupt and usurious agreement with defendant Stevens, who is now and was then a resident of Chicago, and it was then usuriously, corruptly, and against the form of the statute, agreed between said Lester and Stevens, that Stevens should lend to Lester $2,000; that Lester should pay therefor twenty per cent, per annum, and should pay the expenses of an agent to be sent to Ogle county, to…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
At the time this plea to the jurisdiction of the court was filed, there were four defendants, one of whom, the sheriff of Ogle, had been brought in and made a party by the amended bill. The plea avers, that Willard and Pearce, “ the major part of said defendants,” reside in Cook county. The averment that two is the major part of four, does not make it so; nor does.the setting of a plea for hearing, admit that which cannot be true. How, our statute says, that the suit shall be commenced in the county where the defendants, or a major part of them, reside; this, if it were possible to raise the…
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- Chambers v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1933