Lemon v. Stevenson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit instituted in the court below by Adlai E. Stevenson against George 0. Lemon, Sen., Zenas Hartley and Azor Oaproh, to recover as assignee of the following promissory note: $979.09. Boston, Nov. 7,1860. Eight months after date we jointly and severally agree to pay to the order of George G. Lemon, Jr., Nine Hundred and Seventy-Nine 09-100 Dollars, at…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit instituted in the court below by Adlai E. Stevenson against George 0. Lemon, Sen., Zenas Hartley and Azor Oaproh, to recover as assignee of the following promissory note: $979.09. Boston, Nov. 7,1860. Eight months after date we jointly and severally agree to pay to the order of George G. Lemon, Jr., Nine Hundred and Seventy-Nine 09-100 Dollars, at either Bank in Boston, Mass., value received. GEORGE 0. LEMON, Sen. Z. HARTLEY. A. CAPRON. Indorsed, “ Pay to the order…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
The error relied upon to reverse this case, questions the correctness of the judgment of the court below, sustaining a demurrer to the fourth, fifth and sixtlppleas filed by appellants. The note sued upon was executed by Lemon, Hartley and Capron. In the fourth plea it is averred, that Lemon, one of the makers, delivered to one Baldwin, the agent of Pierce Brothers & Flanders, who were the real owners of the note at the time suit was brought, ten thousand bushels of corn, to be sold by them, in Boston, for the best price it would bring, on the first day of August thereafter, and after…
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