Ducat v. City of Chicago

This was an action of debt, brought in the Superior Court of Chicago, by the City of Chicago, against Arthur C. Ducat, to recover of him, as agent of four several insurance companies, located and established in the State of Hew York, by virtue of the laws of that State, for the sum of two dollars upon every hundred dollars of premiums he, as such agent, had received on policies issued by said companies, severally, while they were doing business as such companies in the city of Chicago.

Besides the plea of nil debet, on which an issue was made up, the defendants filed a special plea, to which a…