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Kellogg v. Moore

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 3, 1881PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the Superior Court of Cook county in a chancery proceeding, wherein plaintiff in error was complainant and defendant in error was defendant.

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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a decree of the Superior Court of Cook county in a chancery proceeding, wherein plaintiff in error was complainant and defendant in error was defendant. The bill charges, that February 1, 1869, Samuel Bliss, Alexander P. Moore and William B. Topliff entered into co-partnership in the wholesale grocery business in Chicago; that the…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulicey

It will be perceived that the bill in this case is, in form, scope and purpose, an ordinary bill for an account between partners.

The bill proceeds upon the theory that there is a general unsettled account between the members of the late firm of Bliss, Moore & Co. as partners, and that a true and fair adjustment of the same will show an indebtedness from Moore to Bliss and Topliff, as partners under the style of Samuel Bliss & Co., and that the right to this indebtedness passed to Kellogg, the complainant, under the bankruptcy proceedings. If the complainant has failed to establish any one of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. White v. MorrisonIllinois Supreme Court · 1849

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Millard v. MillardIllinois Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Adams v. GillIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  3. Moore v. TopliffIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
  4. Mitchell v. ClemIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  5. Brockhausen v. BochlandIllinois Supreme Court · 1891

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