Legal Opinion

Bennett v. Chandler

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 25, 1902PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Writ op Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles G. Neely, Judge, presiding.

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Writ op Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles G. Neely, Judge, presiding. A bill was filed in the circuit court of Cook county on August 12, 1898, by the defendant in error, Frank R Chandler, individually and as first successor in trust, and Henry T. Chace, second successor in trust, against Asahel F. Bennett, Francis F. Smith, and Anna F. Smith, his wife, Prescott Doughty Bennett, a bachelor and a minor, George A. Hawley, trustee, Henry C. Fuller, trustee, and others, to foreclose the…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder

The principal note of $5000.00, and the extension interest coupons, numbered 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, were all owned by Hetty H. R. Green, and were payable to her order. Chandler & Co., who were her agents for the collection of the coupons, remitted to her the amounts of the extension interest coupons, numbered 5, 6, 7 and 8, and due respectively May 1 and November 1, 1894, and May 1 and November 1,1895. But the money, so remitted to Mrs. Green upon these four interest coupons, was not paid by the makers thereof, Bennett and Smith, but was advanced by Chandler or Chandler & Co. out of their…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Wood v. Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. Ketchum v. DuncanSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  3. Sanford v. McLeanNew York Court of Chancery · 1831
  4. Bishop v. O'ConnerIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
  5. Hough v. Ætna Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1870

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Johnson v. GillettSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1917
  2. American National Bank & Trust Co. v. Weyerhaeuser Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982
  3. Ohio National Life Insurance v. Board of EducationIllinois Supreme Court · 1944
  4. Progressive Insurance v. Universal Casualty Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 2004
  5. American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, Cross-Appellee v. Weyerhaeuser Company, Third-Party and Counter-Defendant- Cross-Appellant v. The First Jersey National Bank, Third-Party and Counter-PlaintiffCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1982

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