Loeb v. Flannery
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Smith
delivered the opinion of the court.
The sole question presented by the record, as stated by the attorneys for the respective parties, is whether the trial court erred in refusing to admit the evidence offered by appellant under his plea of want of consideration for the promise contained in the instrument in suit, and in directing a verdict in favor of appellee.
If the proffered evidence was properly excluded by the trial court there was no other course left open to the court than to direct a verdict in favor of appellee, for no defense to the case made by appellee was…
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