Joseph Davis, Cory & Co. v. Chicago Dock Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ ok Error to the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard Prendergast, Judge, presiding. The Chicago Dock Company is a corporation engaged in the dock and warehouse business in Chicago. The Lyman Manufacturing Companj’", managed by Sherman & Marsh, stored wire in the warehouse of the dock company, for which warehouse receipts were issued, but which were subsequently taken up and delivery orders issued instead.
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Writ ok Error to the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard Prendergast, Judge, presiding. The Chicago Dock Company is a corporation engaged in the dock and warehouse business in Chicago. The Lyman Manufacturing Companj’", managed by Sherman & Marsh, stored wire in the warehouse of the dock company, for which warehouse receipts were issued, but which were subsequently taken up and delivery orders issued instead. Sherman & Marsh demanded delivery of the wire to them without return of the delivery orders, alleging their loss. The dock company refused to make the delivery without the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shope
Two questions are presented by this record: First, had the county court, under the Voluntary Assignment act, jurisdiction to determine the interest of the assignee in the property in controversy, and to authorize and require him to receive payment for such interest, and execute an acquittance of the claim of the assignor upon receipt of the same; and second, do the facts here shown authorize the entry of that order by the county court, if it had such jurisdiction.
By the sheriff’s deed of June 5, 1883, Eben J. Marsh, one of the assignors, became clothed with the legal title to real estate of…
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