Coggeshall v. Ruggles
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason County; Hon. Charles Turner, Judge, presiding. In April, 1855, Wm. H. Coggeshall, as principal, and James M. Ruggles, as surety, executed a note to Howard & O’Neal,, administrators of the estate of one Marshall, deceased.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason County; Hon. Charles Turner, Judge, presiding. In April, 1855, Wm. H. Coggeshall, as principal, and James M. Ruggles, as surety, executed a note to Howard & O’Neal,, administrators of the estate of one Marshall, deceased. In June, 1857, Ruggles becoming doubtful of the solvency of Coggeshall, purchased of him a pair of horses and a buggy for four hundred and twenty-five dollars, and agreed to pay three hundred dollars of the amount on the note. Failing to do so, the payees brought suit and recovered judgment on the note. ■ In June, 1865, Coggeshall…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lawrence
In April, 1855, William H. Coggeshall, one of the appellants, as pi-incipal, with Ruggles, the appellee, as surety, executed a promissory note for three hundred dollars to the administrators of the estate of one Marshall, deceased. In 1861 suit was brought upon the note in the county court of Mason County, and a judgment rendered in favor of the administrators. The defendants appealed to the circuit court, where the appeal was subsequently dismissed and a procedendo awarded. In 1866 an execution was issued on the judgment and levied on the land of Ruggles. There was a sale under the execution…
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