Warner v. Hale

This was an action originally commenced before a justice of the peace of Cook county, by Franklin M. Hale and George Snooks, as partners, against Lawson S. Warner and C. D. Swartwout, as partners, and taken by the appeal of Warner to the circuit court; in which court a judgment was rendered against him for the amount of the plaintiffs’ claim.

To reverse this judgment, Warner appeals to this court, and makes the point that the agreement under which plaintiffs claimed relating to an interest in land, and not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, was void by the statute of…