Legal Opinion

Star Brewery v. Farnsworth

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 21, 1898PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright

In July, 1894, appellee was a carpenter at Lemont, Illinois, and had some talk with G. Buban, a saloon-keeper of that place, about putting up a building for Buban at Willow Springs. The estimate for the lumber required was §380, and the probable cost of the building would be at least §1000. Otto Driehaus was an agent for appellant in the g'eneral management of its beer trade at Lemont, in soliciting trade, collecting money and caring for its teams, wagons, ice houses and property at that place. On July 20,1894, Buban went to appellant’s brewery in Chicago with the Lemont agent, Driehaus, who…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Franey v. TrueIllinois Supreme Court · 1861

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. People v. CurranIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
  2. Wood & Pritchard v. McClureSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
  3. Central Commercial Co. v. Jones-Dusenbury Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1918
  4. Central National Bank & Trust Co. v. Consumers Construction Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1972
  5. Pope County State Bank v. U. G. I. Contracting Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1932

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