Standard Oil Co. v. Town of Patterson

Mr. Presiding Justice Riess

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff appellee, Standard Oil Company, an Indiana corporation, recovered judgment in the circuit court of Greene county, Illinois, in the sum of $3,072.67 against the defendant appellant, Curtis L. Bawdy, commissioner of highways of Patterson township in said county, upon trial of the cause without a jury, from which judgment an appeal was taken to this court.

The complaint consisted of four counts, in the first three of which, plaintiff sought recovery of the amount of principal and interest alleged to have been due and…