Oakford & Fahnestock v. Dunlap
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trial of the Right of Property.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Pleasants
deliveeed the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict for the claimant on a trial of the right of property. The facts, in outline, are as follows:
George W. Royster was conducting a general mercantile business in the village of Anchor, in the course of which he became indebted to appellants and other parties. Among them was his step-father-in-law, the appellee, who was farming in Indiana. In June, 1894, an agent of the Smith-Wallace Shoe Co., a creditor to the amount of $620, came to Anchor to get a settlement, which Royster did not…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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