Seymour v. O. S. Richardson Fueling Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the H.on. Edward P. Vail, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the H.on. Edward P. Vail, Judge, presiding. This is an action in assumpsit,, brought by. attachment on the ground of the non-residence of a part of the defendants, and begun on or about April 18, 1898, by the O. S. Richardson Fueling Company, for use of Levi Windmuller, against John Seymour, Richard A. Seymour, Elwyn W. Seymour and Antoine E. Cartier, co-partners as Seymour Transportation Company, for the price of coal, alleged to have been furnished at divers…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
We pass no opinion upon the merits of the controversy presented by this record, inasmuch as the judgment of the Appellate Court must be reversed on account of the character of the judgment itself.
The judgment, rendered by the circuit court, was a money judgment in behalf of appellee, the O. S. Richardson Fueling Company, against the four defendants below, appellants here, to-wit, John Seymour, Richard A. Seymour, Elwyn W. Seymour and Antoine E. Cartier. The money judgment thus rendered was a unit as to all the' defendants, and upon appeal the judgment must be reversed as to all the…
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