Dickinson v. Boyd
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, on the common counts. Trial in the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. H. R. S. Wheatley, Judge, presiding. Binding and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendant. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1899. Rehearing denied.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Freeman
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant became indebted to appellee for various sums, there being apparently a running account between the parties. Appellant and the Northern Electric Railway Co., of which he is president, were each indebted to a third party, the Excelsior Machine and Boiler Works. Appellee, as assignee of the Garden City Foundry Co., the insolvent, had retained as manager of the foundry, one Turner, its former president. An arrangement was made between Turner aud appellant, by which it was agreed that the debt to the Boiler Works due from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Monroe v. ChaldeckIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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