Flower v. Beveridge
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, for the recovery of money paid by mistake. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Declaration, special and common counts; pleas, general issue and statute of limitations; trial by the court; finding and judgment for defendant; appeal by plaintiff; submitted at the March term, 1895, of this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justioe G-ary
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This suit was commenced March 28, 1892, by the appellants, against the appellees, to recover back sums of money, in the aggregate amounting to $2,490.33, paid by the former to the latter from June 30, 1883, to July 14,1884. The appellees pleaded that the cause of action did not accrue ivithin five years, on which issue was taken.
The facts, as the appellants claim them to be, are that they were the attorneys of the appellees, and as such collected from the assets of the defunct firm of Fay & Conkey the sums sued for, and paid them over to the…
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