Cook v. Shipman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph E. Q-art, Judge, presiding. This case was before this court on a former occasion, when the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded, and is reported in 24 Ill. 614, where a full statement of the case will be found. The facts necessary to an understanding of this decision are sufficiently set forth in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This case has been once considered and decided, and reported in 24 Ill. 614, upon the same pleadings. The special pleas were adjudged to present a good defense to the action, and under these the court should have given the fifth and sixth instructions asked by the defendant, asserting, as they did, the principles of law contained in those pleas.
Those instructions were given on the second trial, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and judgment rendered against the. defendant, and from which he appeals.
Both parties were sworn as witnesses in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cook v. ShipmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1860
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- Hannah v. FifeMichigan Supreme Court · 1873