Conlan v. Mead
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by appellees, a firm known as M. A. Mead & Co., against William I. Watson and James Conlan, a firm, as is claimed, known as W. I. Watson & Co. The action was brought by suing out a writ of attachment, which was levied on certain property.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by appellees, a firm known as M. A. Mead & Co., against William I. Watson and James Conlan, a firm, as is claimed, known as W. I. Watson & Co. The action was brought by suing out a writ of attachment, which was levied on certain property. The declaration contained the common counts, to which the defendant Conlan filed a plea traversing the grounds for an attachment set up in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
The princqDal contest in the Superior Court'was over the question whether the defendant Conlan was a member of the firm of W. I. Watson & Co., and, as such, liable for the debts of the firm. Upon the application of the appellant the jury returned answers to interrogatories on the question of partnership, as follows:
“Did the defendant Conlan agree with defendant Watson to form a co-partnership?”—Yes.
“Did the defendant Conlan so conduct himself as to induce the plaintiffs to believe that he was a partner of defendant Watson?”—Yes.
The finding of the jury in the Superior Court, having been…
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