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Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Lamson

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided June 21, 1900PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Assumpsit, for money wrongfully taken. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County: the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1899.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Sears

delivered the opinion of , the court.

This suit was brought in assumpsit by appellant, a banking corporation, to recover money alleged to have been wrongfully taken from appellant by one of its receiving tellers, and paid by him to appellees for losses in speculative deals and trades in grain, stocks, provisions, etc:, made through appellees as brokers upon the Bew York Stock Exchange and on the Board of Trade of the city of Chicago.

One Boss C. Yan Bokklen was teller of appellant. In 1892, having received from the estate of his father some §2,000 he began trading…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Pixley v. BoyntonIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  2. Comstock v. HannahIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  3. Matson v. AlleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Bemis v. HornerIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  5. Shreeves v. AllenIllinois Supreme Court · 1875

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3Cited by10 opinions

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  4. Hortman-Salmen Co. v. NaquinLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1930
  5. Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, an Ohio Corporation v. Ruth L. Smith, Richard Lowell Smith, Donna Gene Smith and John C. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1962

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