Booth v. People

The plaintiff in error was convicted and adjudged to pay a fine of $100 under an indictment which charged that he, on the 16th day of August, 1899, in said county of Cook, in the State of Illinois aforesaid, unlawfully did contract in writing with the Wear e Commission Company, a corporation, to then and there have to himself, to-wit, to said Alfred V. Booth, a certain option to buy at a future time, to-wit, on or before the 26th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, a certain commodity, to-wit, grain, to-wit, 10,000 bushels of corn, from the said…