D. M. Osborn & Co. v. Stanley
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Charles It. Starr, Judge, presiding. This was a suit originally commenced before a justice of the peace in Iroquois county, by D. M. Osborn & Co., against Mieajah Stanley, upon the following promissory note: “ $67.00. Middleport, Aug. 1st, 1861. “ On the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for value reed., I, the subscriber, of Middleport, county of Iroquois, State of Illinois, promise to pay…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Charles It. Starr, Judge, presiding. This was a suit originally commenced before a justice of the peace in Iroquois county, by D. M. Osborn & Co., against Mieajah Stanley, upon the following promissory note: “ $67.00. Middleport, Aug. 1st, 1861. “ On the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for value reed., I, the subscriber, of Middleport, county of Iroquois, State of Illinois, promise to pay D. M. Osborn & Co., sixty-seven dollars, with int. at 10 per et. per annum. “M. STANLEY.” A judgment was rendered against…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beckwith
This is a suit upon a promissory note; the defense a failure of consideration. On the trial in the court below it appeared that on or about the 1st of July, 1860, the defendant in error purchased of the agent of the plaintiffs in error a patent reaper and mower for the sum of $135. On the sale,-the agent of the plaintiffs in error represented that the machine was a good one; and it was agreed, that the defendant in error was to take the same and try it, and if it operated satisfactorily he was to keep it; if it did not, he was to return it, or the agent of the plaintiffs in error would make…
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