McNeil & Higgins Co. v. Hamlet
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Lake county; the Hon. Perry L. Persons, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
In September, 1917, McNeil & Higgins Company brought this suit in the court below against William Hamlet and Louis J. Yager, who the declaration alleged were trading under the firm name of Yager & Hamlet. Hamlet was defaulted. Yager filed a plea in abatement, denying the partnership at the time of the transactions involved, and also a plea of the general issue. The declaration and pleas were each duly verified. There was a jury trial as to Yager, and at the close of the evidence the court directed a verdict against him. Motions by…
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