Peterson v. Smith

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff by the Municipal Court of Chicago on trial by the court without a jury.

Plaintiff sued for money had and received by defendant by reason of an alleged mistake by which plaintiff transferred to defendant a credit of 2,000 marks or $480, being a payment which plaintiff made to a Berlin firm on account of lamps which he had purchased from them.

The affidavit of merits denied any mistake in the transaction and generally denied that the defendant was liable in equity and good conscience to the plaintiff as alleged…