Hustis v. Pickands
Appellate Court of Illinois
In error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This was an action by plaintiffs in error against the defendants in error to recover for commissions alleged to have been earned by the plaintiffs while acting as brokers, within the corporate limits of the city of Chicago, for the defendants, in the purchase of certain mining stocks.
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In error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This was an action by plaintiffs in error against the defendants in error to recover for commissions alleged to have been earned by the plaintiffs while acting as brokers, within the corporate limits of the city of Chicago, for the defendants, in the purchase of certain mining stocks. The defendants filed the plea of the general issue and affidavit of merits, also a special plea, to which the plaintiffs interposed a demurrer. The court overruled the demurrer, whereupon, the plaintiffs electing to abide…
1Opinion of the CourtMcAllister, J.
The ordinance set out in the special plea has been adjudged to be legal and valid. Braun v. Chicago, 110 Ill. 186. While the language of the ordinance is somewhat peculiar, yet we are inclined to the. opinion that it was intended to and does fairly embrace and apply to brokers in stocks. If we are right in that conclusion then it follows, as" we thinkfrom the doctrine of the prevailing current of authorities, that the plaintiffs, being unlicensed as brokers at the time of the purchase by them as such, of the stock in question, their act was unlawful and they can not recover commissions, so…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Braun v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
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