National Bank of Monmouth v. Shunick

Appellee, the national Bank of Monmouth, as assignee of the Good Roads Machinery Company, began an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Warren county against M. T. Shunick, as commissioner of highways of the town of Sumner, Warren county, Illinois, to recover $391 due on two town orders, or warrants, issued to the assignor by W. J. Bond, who on the date the orders were issued was the commissioner of highways of said township. Bond was subsequently succeeded as commissioner of highways by M. T. Shunick and when the two orders became due, Shunick refused to pay them, and suit was brought…