Morrison v. Austin State Bank
Appellate Court of Illinois
Intervening petition in proceeding for partnership accounting, etc. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stein
The question here is, who has the better right to certain warrants issued by the town of Cicero: the receiver of an insolvent partnership to which they were issued before it went into the receiver’s hands, or the appellee bank which purchased them for value and without notice from a creditor of one of the partners, to whom the partner had transferred them, without the knowledge of his copartners, in payment of a past due indebtedness individually owing by the transferring partner to the transferee.
John J. Morrison & Co. & O’Brien was a copartnership in the business of building and laying…
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- Rainey v. NanceIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
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