Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. v. Long
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mason B. Loomis, Judge, presiding. This was replevin, brought in justice’s court by Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company against Kate long, to recover a sewing machine. On appeal to the county court the case was tried by jury. The plaintiff proved the execution by defendant, and then gave in evidence the following contract: “Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co., “155 State St., Chicago, Illinois.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mason B. Loomis, Judge, presiding. This was replevin, brought in justice’s court by Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company against Kate long, to recover a sewing machine. On appeal to the county court the case was tried by jury. The plaintiff proved the execution by defendant, and then gave in evidence the following contract: “Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co., “155 State St., Chicago, Illinois. “ $60. Feb. 1st, 1878. “Received of the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, one Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, style No. 8, Plate No.…
1Opinion of the CourtMcAllister, P. J.
We are of opinion, after careful consideration of the evidence, that the verdict in this case is manifestly against the weight and preponderance of the evidence, and the court below should have set it aside for that reason, if for no other. We are also of opinion that the first instruction for defendant was wrong. From the whole testimony it appears that defendant exchanged her old sewing machine for a new one. She executed a bill of sale of the old one, and an instrument in the nature of a lease or bailment, of the new one. Her signature was proved and these papers introduced in evidence by…
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