Legal Opinion
Meadowcroft v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided March 28, 1896PublishedCited by 87 opinions
Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The indictment upon which Charles J. Meadowcroft and Frank R. Meadowcroft, the plaintiffs in error, were convicted, was based upon the first section of “An act for the protection of bank depositors,” approved June 4,1879. Said section is as follows:
“Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That if any banker or broker or person or persons doing a banking business, or any officer of any banking company or incorporated bank doing business in this State, shall receive from any person or persons, firm, company or corporation, or from any agent…
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