Legal Opinion

Barzynski v. Stolba

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided February 13, 1894Published

Memorandum. —Assumpsit. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Jonas Hutohinson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1893.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary

If the appellee was entitled to recover, the common count for work, labor and materials, was all the count needed. Geary v. Bangs, 37 Ill. App. 301.

The appellant, the rector of St. Stanislaus Polish Roman Catholic Church, employed the appellee, an engraver, to make a thousand medals for a hundredth anniversary occasion.

The inscription contained the word “ Swieca,” which alone means candle, but with dots—cedillas—under e and a, the pronunciation of the word is changed from “sweitza” to “ swenzo,” and the meaning is changed to “ celebrate.”

The medals made were without cedillas, and the question…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Geary v. BangsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1890
  2. City of Chicago v. ColmanAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889
  3. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad v. WalkerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1891
  4. Espen v. RobertsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889

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