Hilton v. Oakes

Appellees, W. H. Hilton and W. E. Barbre, brought suit for the use of the First National Bank of Taylor-ville, Hlinois, against William L. Oakes to recover the price of a monument, alleged to be due by the terms of a written contract. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of appellees in the sum of $744.68, from which Oakes has prosecuted an appeal.

The case was before this court upon a former appeal at the November term, 1905, when the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded in an opinion reported in 127 Ill. App. 208, and as the subject-matter of the controversy was there fully set…