Johnson v. Richardson
Illinois Supreme Court
The only questions raised upon this record are fully presented in the opinion of the court, and render any other statement of the ca.se unnecessary.
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action on the case by Richardson and Hopkins against Johnson. One Brush, who was a co-partner of the plaintiffs below, having in his possession $434 of the partnership money, in company with one Thompson arrived by railroad late in the night at Springfield and put up at the hotePof the defendant.
Thompson, in the presence of Brush, deposited with the clerk of the hotel a package of $3000, which he was conveying for other persons, and the same was placed in an iron safe kept in the office of the hotel for such purposes.
After supper Brush and Thompson were put into one room to lodge,…
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