Alton Manufacturing Co. v. Garrett Biblical Institute
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. E. A. Dicker, Judge, presiding.
1Per curiam
The court is of the opinion that the learned trial judge of the Municipal Court ruled correctly in excluding the notes sued on when they were offered in evidence. This necessarily involved, of course, the further ruling by which the jury was peremptorily instructed.
The grounds for the exclusion of the notes were that while they were ostensibly signed by the Garrett Biblical Institute, the signatures showed on their face that they were made in the name of the Garrett Biblical Institute by Robert D. Sheppard, Treasurer; that a treasurer of such a corporation as the Garrett Biblical Institute…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Davis v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
- Parks v. Northwestern UniversityIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- National Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Home Savings BankIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
- Merchants' National Bank v. Nichols & Shepard Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1906
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