Feulner v. Gillam
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Martin M. Gridlet, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Thomson
delivered the opinion of the court.
By this writ of error the plaintiff, John Feulner, seeks to reverse a judgment recovered by the defendant, after a verdict finding the issues in her favor, in a suit based upon a promissory nóte signed by the defendant and drawn to the plaintiff’s order.
It was the claim of the defendant on the trial that although the note was payable to the plaintiff, who was her brother, it was in fact the property of their mother and was held by the plaintiff as the mother ’s agent and further that their mother had forgiven the defendant the…
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