Kuechle v. Springer
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Albert H. Frost, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1907.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presidihg Justice Adams
delivered the opinion of the court.
The evidence in this case discloses a deliberate, premeditated, malicious and cunningly devised scheme, by the defendant Springer and his confederates, to defraud, by means of the worthless notes of an insolvent person, unsecured by anything of value, any person whom they could induce to purchase the notes or take them in payment for anything of value, and that the plaintiff fell a victim to this scheme. The fraud, besides being proved by the plaintiff’s evidence, is impliedly admitted by the defendant’s failure to produce any…
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