Legal Opinion

Stanton v. Strong

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 16, 1901PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Assumpsit, on a promissory note. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edmund W. Burke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1900.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit begun before a justice of the peace, upon a promissory note for $125, dated December 4, 1894, made by A. D. Pickering to the order of himself, and indorsed by him. The appellant, William A. Stanton, and one A. H. Pickering, also indorsed the note.

After judgment before the justice in favor of appellee for $142.05, an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court. In that court two trials were had, both resulting in verdicts for the appellee, and from the judgment on the last verdict, for $125, this appeal has come.

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Pixley v. BoyntonIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  2. Chicago Trust & Savings Bank v. LandfieldAppellate Court of Illinois · 1898

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Tinker v. Midland Valley Mercantile Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1909

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