Treat v. Smith

There is in this case very little conflict of evidence. The contest is chiefly over the rules of law applicable to conceded facts.

The defendant, Charles P. Treat, although describing himself as of Chicago in conveyances, seems, during the longtime involved in the matters under discussion herein, to have almost continuously been away from it. He was oceupied in other’ places far remote. He had an office in the Rookery Building in Chicago, but he was in that office and in Chicago but four or five times from 1891 to 1903, according to the testimony of his employee, Collins. Whether he was here…