Imperial Hotel Co. v. H. B. Claflin Co.

This is a writ of error brought to reverse the judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District, affirming a judgment of the superior court of Cook county, rendered against plaintiffs in error, as joint debtors, for $26,487.35, in favor of the defendant in error.

The ground of reversal urged in the Appellate Court was, that the superior court erred in holding that the plaintiffs in error were joint debtors and jointly liable, and in allowing interest on the accounts sued on. In the trial court there was no plea denying the joint liability, but it was insisted the evidence showed there…