Hughes v. Barrell
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Frank Crowe, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
August 11, 1908, the appellee, James H. Hughes, sued the appellants, who were doing business as Finley Barrell and Company, in the Municipal Court of Chicago in an action of the first class. It was denominated in praecipe and summons “a plea of trespass on the case. ’ ’ He filed in said suit a declaration in two counts. The first was in the ordinary common law form used immemorially in actions of trover, asserting-that on November 16,1907, the plaintiff was “lawfully possessed” of, and “casually lost,” certain shares of corporate…
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