American Travel & Hotel Directory Co. v. Curtis

This is an appeal from a judgment in the municipal court of Chicago that the plaintiff, American Travel & Hotel Directory Company, take nothing in its suit against the defendant, Espy Curtis. The suit was brought by the plaintiff as assignee of Henry Sweets-son, Inc., upon an alleged contract for advertising which had been signed by the plaintiff and mailed to 1 Sweetsson.

The plaintiff alleged in its statement of claim that the defendant on October 26, 1922, by means of a printed contract signed by the defendant, promised to pay $50 a year for a period of three years for certain classified…