Legal Opinion

United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Connors

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 4, 1921No. Gen. No. 26,311PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1920. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal error assigned by defendant, Connors, is that the trial court erred in striking his said amended affidavit of merits from the files.

Counsel for defendant first contend (as contended in the trial court as disclosed from paragraph 2 of defendant’s said affidavit of merits) that the contracts between the Board of Education and defendant are lacking in mutuality and therefore incapable of enforcement by said Board, and for the reason that, although defendant is bound to deliver coal to said Board as therein specified,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Minnesota Lumber Co. v. Whitebreast Coal Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1895
  2. Vogel v. PekocIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  3. National Furnace Co. v. Keystone Manufacturing Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1884
  4. Joliet Bottling Co. v. Joliet Citizens' Brewing Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Higbie v. RustIllinois Supreme Court · 1904

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. National Slovak Society of the United States ex rel. American Surety Co. of New York v. MatlochaAppellate Court of Illinois · 1940
  2. Eileen K. Byrne, of the Estate of Maurice C. Byrne, Etc. v. Shell Oil CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1961

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