Farwell v. Meyer
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a suit in chancery, instituted in the court below by Charles B. Farwell against Max A. Meyer, Levi Bosenfeld, Jacob Bosenberg and H. W. Zimmerman.
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Writ of Error to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a suit in chancery, instituted in the court below by Charles B. Farwell against Max A. Meyer, Levi Bosenfeld, Jacob Bosenberg and H. W. Zimmerman. It was set forth in the bill that about the 16th of October, 1857, Zimmerman was indebted to Eosenfeld & Bosenberg, $1,500, upon a note then in the hands of Greenebaum Bros., for collection, and which fell due that day; that an arrangement was effected between the owners of said note and Zimmerman to extend the time for the payment of $750 of said note, for thirty days, upon obtaining…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr; Justice Beckwith
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This is a suit in equity to restrain the collection of a judgment, rendered by the Cook County Court of Common Pleas, against the plaintiff in error and Henry W. Zimmerman in favor of Max A. Meyer, one of the defendants in error, upon a promissory note executed by Zimmerman as principal and the plaintiff in error as surety. Attached to the note was a letter of attorney in the usual form, pursuant tó which the judgment was entered by confession. The bill alleges that Rosenfeld & Rosenberg were the holders and owners of the note when it…
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