Farrell v. City of Chicago
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 Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The Appellate Court, for errors of law, reversed, without remanding, a judgment for $8657.11, rendered by the circuit court of Cook county against the appellee in an action of assumpsit brought against it by the appellant. The suit was to recover the balance unpaid on a voucher issued by the city on November 12, 1894, to the plaintiff’s intestate, Patrick Farrell, under a contract in a special assessment proceeding for paving West Madison street. The voucher was originally for $11,807.11, but it had been credited with payments from special assessments collected by the city, leaving only a…
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