Legal Opinion

Waterman v. Clark

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1875PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock county; the Hon. Joseph Sibley, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon

This was an action upon a promissory note, of which the following is a copy, to wit:

$124.49 Warsaw, Ill., Feb. 16, 1870.

Three months after date, we, or either of us, promise, to pay to the order of A. M. Waterman, $124.49, for value received, and with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date. A. J. Clark,

Wm. N. McCall.

The. error assigned is, the overruling of a demurrer to defendants’ fourth plea.

The plea, in substance, was, that Waterman, the plaintiff, on the first day of December, 1869, owned and was running a distillery, and took certain cattle and hogs of defendant Clark…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Stow v. YarwoodIllinois Supreme Court · 1853

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Myers v. Hurley Motor Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1927
  2. Wadhams v. SwanIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
  3. Green v. ConradSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
  4. Industrial Works v. MitchellMichigan Supreme Court · 1897
  5. Willoughby v. BallSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1907

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