Legal Opinion

Firemen's Insurance v. Peck

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1888PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lorin C. Collins, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

• Mr. Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the Court:

Appellee prosecuted this action on the case against the appellant corporation, in the Cook circuit court, for the refusal of the latter to transfer to him, or permit to be so transferred, on the books of the company, thirty shares of the capital stock of the company, and recovered a judgment for $5100 damages, which judgment was afterward affirmed in the Appellate Court for the First District.

The case was tried before the circuit court without a jury. The transcript of the record, as made by the clerk of that court, recites that a motion…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Dickhut v. DurrellIllinois Supreme Court · 1849

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Illinois Central Railroad v. O'KeefeIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  2. People ex rel. Hubbard v. AnthonyIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
  3. Dickinson v. GrayAppellate Court of Illinois · 1897
  4. Hawley v. HuthAppellate Court of Illinois · 1904
  5. Ryan v. Baltimore & O. R. R.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1895

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