Barbour v. White
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Supeiior Court of Chicago, Hon. Grant Goodrich, Judge, presiding. This was an action of replevin commenced at the February term, 1859, by Horace White against the plaintiffs in error, to recover certain personal property claimed by him under a chattel mortgage. He died pending the suit and the defendants in error were made parties plaintiff as his executors. They recovered a verdict and judgment and the defendants below sued out a writ of error.
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Writ op Error to the Supeiior Court of Chicago, Hon. Grant Goodrich, Judge, presiding. This was an action of replevin commenced at the February term, 1859, by Horace White against the plaintiffs in error, to recover certain personal property claimed by him under a chattel mortgage. He died pending the suit and the defendants in error were made parties plaintiff as his executors. They recovered a verdict and judgment and the defendants below sued out a writ of error. The facts, so far as they are material to the points decided, are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
In May, 1858, one Beers bought of Maher, one of the appellants, the furniture of a hotel in Chicago, known as the Adams House, paying him therefor $15,000 in liquors, and $5,000 in cash. At the same time he leased the hotel from Maher for a term of ten years, the rent payable monthly at the rate of one thousand dollars per month. The liquors at that time belonged to the firm of A. P. Kenyon & Co., and said sum of $5,000 was borrowed of one Horace White, now deceased, then a banker in Syracuse, Hew York, on the credit of one William Walter, one of the members of said firm. Beers, at the time…
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