Sample v. Farson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice F. A. Smith
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant in error, Sample, brought a suit of the fourth class in the Municipal Court against plaintiff in error, Farson, on a promissory note. The defendant, Farson, filed two successive affidavits of defense, each of which was stricken from the files as insufficient. By leave of court he then filed an amended affidavit of defense on February 11, 1911, averring that he believed he had a good defense upon the merits to the whole of the plaintiff’s demand, stating the nature of the defense as follows:
“From about the first of May, 1909,…
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