Wiley v. Stewart
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle County; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. This was a suit commenced by appellee against the firm of O. J. Wilson & Company, composed of appellant, O. J. and Wm. Wilson, on a promissory note purporting to be signed by. said firm, payable to appellee, bearing date August 1,188J, due March the 1st, 1885, for the sum of §800, drawing eight per cent, interest from date. The note was signed by Wm.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle County; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. This was a suit commenced by appellee against the firm of O. J. Wilson & Company, composed of appellant, O. J. and Wm. Wilson, on a promissory note purporting to be signed by. said firm, payable to appellee, bearing date August 1,188J, due March the 1st, 1885, for the sum of §800, drawing eight per cent, interest from date. The note was signed by Wm. Wilson, one of the members of the firm, in the firm name. The defense interposed by the appellant Wiley was that William Wilson had no authority to…
1Opinion of the Court
Lacey J.
There can be little question that, according to the evidence admitted by the court to go to the jury, O. J, Wilson & Company, a firm composed of appellant and the two Wilsons, was a general trading firm, though when first organized, the scope of the business was perhaps not so extensive, it being created more especially for repairing, blacksmithing and manufacturing certain farm implements than for any other purpose, but the general business of buying and selling farming implements was added, and under such circumstances as that appellant should be held to notice of the extent of the…
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