Tennessee Packing & Provision Co. v. Fitzgerald
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill for accounting. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Hokore, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
The special demurrer filed to the amended bill presents two grounds in substance: first, that appellant has an adequate remedy at law; and second, that it appears from the bill that appellant is a foreign corporation, and fails to show that it has been authorized to transact business in this state or that it has complied with the statute requiring foreign corporations doing-business in this state to have a public office in this state, etc.
It appears from the bill, we think, that the recovery here sought is of a purely legal demand, for which, if appellees are liable at all, the recovery could…
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