Townsend v. Gregory
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of assumpsit. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holdom
The parties will be referred to in this opinion by their designation in the ¡trial court.
Defendants, doing business under the style of Townsend, Reed & Co., had a contract with the Milwaukee & Waukesha Electric Railway Company to construct and equip twenty miles of its single track road in Milwaukee, and on July 14, 1897, they entered into a contract with plaintiff, by which they, for the considerations in that contract mentioned, gave him a one-fourth interest in the net profits arising out of the construction contract with the M. & W. E. Ry. Co. In this contract it is recited that John W.…
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