Sellers v. Greer
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Bremtano, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for specific performance, brought by Howard Greer, against Morris Sellers, in the Superior Court of Cook county. The cause proceeded to a hearing on the pleadings and evidence, and the court entered a decree dismissing the bill.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Bremtano, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for specific performance, brought by Howard Greer, against Morris Sellers, in the Superior Court of Cook county. The cause proceeded to a hearing on the pleadings and evidence, and the court entered a decree dismissing the bill. To reverse the decree Greer appealed to the Appellate Court, where the decree was reversed and the cause remanded for the purpose of allowing Greer to recover such damages as he may…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
The two following grounds are relied upon by counsel for appellant, in the argument, to reverse the judgment of the Appellate Court: “We claim, firstly,that the proposition is not a contract binding upon appellee or upon appellant; that it lacks mutuality; that the subject matter was the property of a corporation, and not of either of the parties named in the proposition; that appellee is in nowise bound, and so acted as not to legally bind himself, in terms, to said proposition; that it was made under such circumstances that it was not, and was not intended to be, a complete or binding…
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