Rosenmueller v. Lampe
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county • the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was a suit by appellee against appellants, as trustees of the Lebanon Catholic Church, brought on the fourth day of November, 1876, for $199.80, claimed to be due for services for teaching school and for church services/ in which appellee recovered a judgment for that amount, and the defendants appealed.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county • the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was a suit by appellee against appellants, as trustees of the Lebanon Catholic Church, brought on the fourth day of November, 1876, for $199.80, claimed to be due for services for teaching school and for church services/ in which appellee recovered a judgment for that amount, and the defendants appealed. According to the testimony of appellee, in October, 1874, the trustees appointed him as teacher in their school, he being engaged for ten months, and to get one dollar from each child, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
Upon the facts in this case, we do not see how this judgment can be sustained. After the performance of all these services appellee was paid $100 on account of them, and gave a written receipt for that sum as in full for salary as . teacher and services in church, from September 1st, 1875, to July 1st, 1876. It is for such services during that period that the suit is brought.
As we said in Winchester v. Grosvenor, 44 Ill. 425, a written receipt is evidence of the highest and most satisfactory character, and to do away with its force the testimony should be convincing.
No such convincing…
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