Bank of Montreal v. Page
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge>presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge>presiding. The Bank of Montreal brought assumpsit, in the circuit court of Cook county, against Gregg, Swift, Page, Bowen, Redfield, Talcott and Walker, as acceptors, under the name of “ E. F. Knight, lessee,” of two drafts that were discounted by said bank, which drafts, with their indorsements, are as follows: “No. 3766. Redfield, Bowen & Co., Iron Merchants and Manufacturers, Sales-rooms, 112,114 and 116 Lake Street.’ “ $1446.67.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
Appellant contends that the fifth instruction given by the circuit court, at the instance of appellees, is erroneous. That instruction is as follows: “The jury are instructed, as a matter of law, that if they believe from the evidence, that the defendants were a co-partnership under the firm name of (E. E. ICnight, Lessee,’ and that E. F. Knight was their agent merely in the manufacture of brick, but without authority to accept drafts or to.make any commercial paper, and that said Knight, as such agent, assumed the authority to accept the drafts sued on, without the knowledge or consent of…
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