Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Ginsburg

On November 6, 1912, the defendant in error, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, brought a suit in assumpsit in the superior court of Cook county against the plaintiff in error, Saul I. Ginsburg. The declaration contained special counts on two promissory notes for the sum of $5000 each, made by defendant to the Grabowsky Power Wagon Company and endorsed by the payee to the plaintiff, and the common counts. The declaration was accompanied by an affidavit that plaintiff’s claim was on the notes and that there was due thereon $8329.50. On December 2, 1912, the defendant filed a plea of the…