Legal Opinion

Penn-American Plate Glass Co. v. Hawes

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided May 9, 1912No. Gen. No. 16,533Published

Assumpsit. Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the' Hon. Ben M. Smith, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1910.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Penn-American Plate Glass Co., a corporation, plaintiff in error and hereinafter called plaintiff, brought suit in the Superior Court of Cook county to recover from John B. Hawes and John M. Dodd, co-partners, doing business as Hawes & Dodd, defendants in error and hereinafter called defendants, the sum of $475 for certain glass, called “novus” glass. Plaintiff’s declaration consisted of the common counts, to which defendants pleaded the general issue. Subsequently defendants filed a plea of set-off, from the bill of…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Stoops v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
  2. Fuchs & Lang Manufacturing Co. v. R. J. Kittredge & Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1909
  3. Illinois Central Railroad v. MillerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889
  4. Van Kirk v. ScottAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894

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