Powell v. Allen
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Charles Kellum, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtPleasants, J.
In December, 1870, the Aurora Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a body corporate, borrowed of'John R. Coulter $6,000, which it secured by a mortgage on its fair grounds.
Afterward it became indebted to the several firms of Howeil and Shoemaker, Powell and Barrett and Dickinson and George —lumber dealers of Aurora — for material used in the erection of sheds and other suitable improvements upon said premises.
In October, 1873, upon the petition of Shoemaker, making the society and the executors of Coulter the only defendants, the debt so due to his firm, amounting to $807, and of which he…
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