Drovers National Bank v. Clemmer
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—In equity. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1894.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
What may be called the fireside equities of this case seem to me to be altogether with the appellees, but we are constrained to say that the law is against them.
There are several individuals, or firms, having separate interests, who shipped from Iowa, stock to the firm of Hanna, Son & Co., commission merchants, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to be sold, and the proceeds to be sent to them severally.
Hanna, Son & Co. kept an account with the appellant, and the mode in which such proceeds got into the possession of the appellant, was, that a purchaser from Hanna, Son & Co., gave to them a…
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