Rigdon v. Walcott
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. Kirk Hawes, Judge, presiding.
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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. Kirk Hawes, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by Charles W. Rigdon against Alfred F. Walcott, to obtain a rescission and cancellation of an agreement, by which the complainant had assigned and relinquished to the defendant, a certain contract theretofore existing between said parties, and for an accounting, and an adjustment between them of the matters embraced in said contract. A demurrer to said bill having been sustained, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The complainant, by his bill, is seeking to rescind and procure the cancellation of a certain transaction or agreement, by which, in consideration of the sum of $40,000 to him paid by the defendant, he assigned and transferred, and, in substance, surrendered to the defendant, a certain contract between him and the defendant, by the terms of which the complainant, in consideration of certain services to be by him performed, was to have transferred to a trustee, for his use, a certain proportion of the shares of the capital stock of the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company, and…
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