Baker v. Administrator of Backus
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. G-eorge Marierre, Judge, presiding. This case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
The questions presented by the record render a full statement of the case necessary. It was as follows:
On the first day of July, 1857, one William Backus filed a bill in chancery, in the Cook Circuit Court, against certain persons named therein as defendants, alleging that they had, on the 15th of December, 1855, associated themselves together and purported to form a corporation for manufacturing, cutting, working, vending and dealing in ice, under the name of “ the Crystal Lake Ice Company,” and for that purpose they had filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Cook, the required…
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