Mayer v. Brensinger
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal, from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This is an action in assumpsit, brought on October 31, 1896, by the appellee against the appellant to recover certain moneys, claimed to have been deposited by the appellee in a box in the safety deposit vaults of appellant.
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Appeal, from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This is an action in assumpsit, brought on October 31, 1896, by the appellee against the appellant to recover certain moneys, claimed to have been deposited by the appellee in a box in the safety deposit vaults of appellant. The suit was originally commenced by the appellee against the appellant and his son, Simon Mayer, but, at the close of the evidence, the suit was dismissed as to Simon Mayer. The original declaration,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The appellee, Brensinger, came to Chicago from Philadelphia with $4843.00 in August, 1895. On October 1, 1895, he rentecl g, box, known as box Ho. 578, from the appellant, who kept for rent boxes in certain deposit vaults, owned by him in the city of Chicago, and called by him “The German-American Safety Deposit Vaults;’’ and, upon the date last named, the appellee deposited therein $4700.00. Appellee, in April, 1896, put into the box $384.00 more. He took out small sums of money from time to time to enable him to live. He was an unmarried man, economical in his habits, and his dress and…
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