Salt Fork Coal Co. v. Eldridge Coal Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Stephen A. Foster, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1910,
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Duncan
Plaintiff in error insists that by the terms of the contract the coal received for the first half of every month of the contract was to be. paid for on the 25th of the month in which it was' received, and that the coal received for the second half of any month was to be paid for on the 10th of the following month, while the claim of the defendant in error is that such coal should be paid for respectively on the 10th and 25th of the month following the month in which it was received. The contract in this regard was ambiguous- and it was proper for the court to admit parol evidence to determine…
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