Legal Opinion
Hippach v. Makeever
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided April 3, 1897PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
This was a suit brought by appellee, against appellant, upon a contract of guaranty executed by the latter upon the back of a promissory note dated April 7, 1894, made by one Charles F. Hippach, to the order of Frederick R. Benson, payable March 1, 1895. The contract of guaranty was as follows:
“For value received, I hereby guarantee the payment of the within note on or before six months after the maturity thereof.
Louis A. Hippach. ”
The declaration consisted of the common counts in assumpsit and a special count against appellant as guarantor. The special count alleged, among other things, that…
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