Legal Opinion

Wolfort v. David Lipsey Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 8, 1914No. Gen. No. 19,455PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Harry Olson, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch

delivered the opinion of the court.

5. Municipal Court of Chicago, § 13*—when rule of court as to sufficiency of affidavit of merits inapplicable. A rule of the Municipal Court that a mere denial will not he regarded as a sufficient affidavit of merits can have no reasonable application to a case in which the nature of the defense shown by the affidavit of merits is a complete and specific denial of all the facts alleged in plaintiff’s affidavit of claim.

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. White v. Central Trust Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1930
  2. Kilgore Linotyping Co. v. J. Koven Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1935
  3. Marshall Field & Co. v. NymanAppellate Court of Illinois · 1918