Tuck v. Downing
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Erastus S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was a bill of complaint, in the circuit court of Cook county, exhibited by Jerome F. Downing, against J. H. L. Tuck, George A. Childs and Octavius Prince, the scope of which was to procure a cancellation of a promissory note executed by complainant to Tuck for five thousand dollars, and which Tuck had placed in the hands of Childs & Prince, bankers at Chicago, as collateral for…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Erastus S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was a bill of complaint, in the circuit court of Cook county, exhibited by Jerome F. Downing, against J. H. L. Tuck, George A. Childs and Octavius Prince, the scope of which was to procure a cancellation of a promissory note executed by complainant to Tuck for five thousand dollars, and which Tuck had placed in the hands of Childs & Prince, bankers at Chicago, as collateral for a loan by them to Tuck of seven hundred dollars. The principal allegations in the bill of complaint are, that Tuck, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This is an appeal from the circuit court of Cook county, to reverse a decree entered in that court in favor of Jerome P. Downing against J. H. L. Tuck and others, cancelling a certain note executed by the complainant to the defendant Tuck, for certain mineral lands in Utah territory, sold and conveyed by the defendant to complainant. The cause was regularly set for hearing on bill, answer, replication, and proofs heard, and a decree passed as prayed. The defendant appeals.
It is unnecessary to consider the point made by appellant, questioning the right of the court to allow an amendment to the…
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