Legal Opinion

Aetna Accident & Liability Co. v. Alexander Lumber Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 21, 1919Published

1 Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Franklin H. Boggs, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1919.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eldredge

The Aetna Accident & Liability Company, appellant, appeals from a decree of the Circuit Court of Champaign county dismissing its amended bill for want of equity and granting a money judgment for the sum of $17,560.35 against it and against Mark S. Freeman and Ellis Brooks, copartners as Freeman &

Brooks, on a cross-bill filed by the Alexander Lumber Company.

It is alleged in the bill as amended in substance that appellant on the 15th day of August, 1914, entered into, as surety for Freeman & Brooks, as principals, a certain bond to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, as…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Hirth v. PowersMichigan Supreme Court · 1896
  2. Mack v. ColleranNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
  3. Booth v. WileyIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
  4. Koch v. RothIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  5. Cain v. VogtSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908

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