Wood v. Price
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. Joseph Sibley, Judge, .presiding. The material facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This was an action of assumpsit, brought to the Adams Circuit Court, at the Oct ober term, 1867, by William Price, against John Wood and Joshua S. Wood, partners in the business of banking, under the firm name of John Wood & Co., at Quincy,' to recover the amount of three drafts, drawn by the defendants, in favor of the plaintiff, on Hoffman & Gelpcke, of Chicago, bearing date May 7, 1861.
The declaration counted on the drafts, and contained the common money counts.
The defendants pleaded non-assumpsit to the whole declaration, and various special pleas to the special counts of the declaration,…
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