Legal Opinion

Bent v. Jones

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided August 12, 1912No. Gen. No. 16,589PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel C. Stough, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1910.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baume

In a suit in replevin, instituted by plaintiff in error’ against defendant in error before a justice of the peace to recover the possession of a piano and a piano stool, there was a verdict and judgment against plaintiff in error, from which judgment he prosecuted his appeal to the Circuit Court, where a trial by jury resulted in a like verdict and judgment against him, to reverse which judgment this writ of error is prosecuted.

On January 18, 1904, defendant in error executed a written instrument wherein he promised to pay to plaintiff in error $195 in instalments, together with interest, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hamilton v. Singer Manufacturing Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1870

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Estate Stove Co. v. KenneyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1924
  2. Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. HigbeeAppellate Court of Illinois · 1922
  3. Wood v. Advance Rumely Thresher Co.North Dakota Supreme Court · 1931

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