Field v. Ridgely

The judgment of the Appellate Court affirming the decree of the circuit court sustaining a demurrer to appellants’ bill, and dismissing the same for want of equity, must be affirmed.

The theory upon which appellants seek to recover is clearly without merit, and can not be sustained. The case made by the bill is, in substance, this: The appellants and appellees were both creditors of Ember, Ragsdale & Co., who had, for a number of years prior to the filing of the bill in this cause, been doing an extensive mercantile business in Springfield, this State. In the spring of 1879, being largely in…