Wolf v. Willits
Illinois Supreme Court
Weit of Eeeoe to the Circuit Court of Bock Island county; the Hon. J. W. Deuey, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit originally commenced in the Circuit Court of Mercer county, by Wells Willitts against Washington Wolf. The cause was removed on change of venue into the Circuit Court of Bock Island county, where it was tried before a jury.
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Weit of Eeeoe to the Circuit Court of Bock Island county; the Hon. J. W. Deuey, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit originally commenced in the Circuit Court of Mercer county, by Wells Willitts against Washington Wolf. The cause was removed on change of venue into the Circuit Court of Bock Island county, where it was tried before a jury. The action was brought to recover damages for an alleged failure on the part of the defendant to deliver to the plaintiff a lot of good fat hogs, according to the stipulations in this instrument of writing: “ Washington Wolf, 110 to 200 good fat…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an action of assumpsit for a failure to perform this agreement:
“Washington Wolf 170 to 200 good fat hogs, delivered next packing season, at four dollars per hundred pounds net weight, and to have five hundred dollars on above contract between this and the 1st day of August next. May 20,1856.
“Signed, WASHINGTON WOLF.”
“Wells Willitts.”
The declaration alleges this contract required the plaintiff in error to deliver to the defendant in error the hogs during the packing season, and alleges that he paid plaintiff in error before the first of August, five hundred dollars. The plaintiff in…
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