Trumbull v. Union Trust Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. E. Pbendergast, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from an order of the County Court of Cook County in the matter of T. W. Hall & Co., insolvent debtors. The firm of T. W. Hall & Co., composed of Thomas W., Charles and William P. Hall, were merchants and factors in wool, having their office and warehouse in two connected buildings, known as numbers 46 to 52 Dearborn avenue, Chicago.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. E. Pbendergast, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from an order of the County Court of Cook County in the matter of T. W. Hall & Co., insolvent debtors. The firm of T. W. Hall & Co., composed of Thomas W., Charles and William P. Hall, were merchants and factors in wool, having their office and warehouse in two connected buildings, known as numbers 46 to 52 Dearborn avenue, Chicago. They occasionally purchased wool on their own account, hut generally their business was that of factors. The firm was a customer of, and kept a general…
1Opinion of the CourtGtabnett, P. J.
From the statement of facts it is clear that the amount of money advanced by the Union Trust Company upon wool shipped by Ayers & Fell, and which was still unpaid at the time of the hearing in the County Court, is purely conjectural. It is admitted that the entire account of Hall & Co. with the trust company was at all times kept as one individual account. The various payments on, and renewals of all the Hall & Co. paper, made after the last advance on that wool, appear to have hopelessly destroyed all traces of the identity of those advances. Ho effort was made to prove that the payments…
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