Close v. Browne
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Dtjpuy, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Dtjpuy, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit brought in the superior court of Cook county by Thomas Hinsley, now deceased, against the appellants, co-partners doing business under the name of Close Bros. & Co., of Chicago, to recover for services claimed to have been rendered by Hinsley, under a contract, in effecting the sale of 96,099 acres of land in the western part of the State of Kansas. Appellants were the agents of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The superior court held, in passing upon the instructions offered by the respective parties, that the transaction between the owners of the Kansas lands, the Amity Land and Irrigation Company and the appellants, set forth by the contract of February 18, 1895, constituted a sale of those lands, and so advised the jury by instructions, and submitted to the jury the question whether such sale was made through the assistance of Hinsley or under his advice. The action of the court in holding that transaction to be a sale is the principal ground upon which a reversal is sought.
The contract between…
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