Brown v. Fire Insurance

Plaintiff sued upon a promise to buy from,the plaintiff stock in the defendant company at the sum of $50 a share. He filed a declaration in three counts, two of which alleged an offer of defendant to buy and acceptance by plaintiff. Defendant filed a demurrer to the declaration. Upon hearing of the demurrer the parties stipulated that “defendant was incorporated August 8, 1929, under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois entitled ‘An Act to Incorporate and Govern Fire, Marine and Inland Navigation Insurance Companies Doing Business in the State of Illinois,’ approved March…