Chandler v. Northern Cross Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Dais was an action of assumpsit by defendant against plaintiff, in the McDonough Circuit Court, upon a subscription to the stock of said company, for $2,000, for twenty shares, on two acts of subscription of ten shares each. Die declaration contains three counts; the first two counts each on one subscription, of ten shares; the third count for subscription' money • and amount stated.
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Dais was an action of assumpsit by defendant against plaintiff, in the McDonough Circuit Court, upon a subscription to the stock of said company, for $2,000, for twenty shares, on two acts of subscription of ten shares each. Die declaration contains three counts; the first two counts each on one subscription, of ten shares; the third count for subscription' money • and amount stated. Die first two counts are identical, and allege, first, a subscription, by plaintiff, to the following instrument: • Subscription Book, 1852, 1853, for the capital stock of the Northern Cross Railroad Company,…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action of assumpsit, to recover the amount of certain subscriptions of the defendant below, to the capital stock of the ¡Northern Cross Eailroad Company.
The first two counts of the declaration are special upon the contract of subscription, and the others are indebitakis counts for subscription moneys due, and so forth.
The defendant pleaded the general issue, and sixteen special pleas, to eleven of which the court sustained demurrers, and issues were joined upon the other pleas.
The pleas to which the court sustained demurrers, without entering into a labored investigation of them,…
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