Legal Opinion

Kohlsaat v. Gay

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 5, 1906No. Gen. No. 12,378Published

Bill for accounting. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal by H. H. Kohlsaat, John B. Waldo and Montgomery B. Gibbs, from a decree rendered against them at the suit of appellee.

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Bill for accounting. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal by H. H. Kohlsaat, John B. Waldo and Montgomery B. Gibbs, from a decree rendered against them at the suit of appellee. The original bill was filed July 15, 1896, against appellants and Stanley Waterloo, A. T. Packard, W. M. Knox, F. E. Johnson, George Schneider, and the Chicago Press Club Auxiliary Association. An amended bill against the same defendants was filed December 17, 1897. In the amended…

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Adams

delivered the opinion of the court.

This cause came to this court before on appeal from a decree sustaining a demurrer to the original bill and dismissing the bill. We reversed that decree and remanded the cause. In the original bill it was averred, as it is in the amended bill, that the Chicago Press Club Auxiliary Association assumed to be a corporation and held itself out in all respects as such, and that complainant “was led by the said defendants and each of them to deal with said Chicago Press Club Auxiliary Association in the matters hereinafter mentioned as a…

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