Legal Opinion

Schlesinger v. Keifer

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided February 13, 1889PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtGary, J.

This was an action under Sec. 15, Ch. 68, R. S. 1874, by appellants against appellees as husband and wife, charging them with ladies’ and children’s apparel, sold by appellants to her, as family expenses.

In this action against them jointly, no other ground of recovery can be x-elied upon. It would see in to be a condition precedent to any family expenses that there should be a family; a family in fact, without regard to what knowledge the persons selling the goods had of the fact. If they sold, as they supposed, to a bachelor or a spinster, and it turned oxxt that there was a wife or a…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Hudson v. King Bros.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1887
  2. O'Brien v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
  3. Wright v. BishopIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
  4. Worden v. CristIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
  5. Compton v. BatesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1882

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Arnold v. KeilAppellate Court of Illinois · 1899
  2. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Illinois Commerce CommissionAppellate Court of Illinois · 1991
  3. Hess v. SlutskyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1922
  4. Gilman v. MatthewsColorado Court of Appeals · 1904
  5. Houghteling v. WalkerU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1900

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