Cagney v. Cuson

Action by Michael Cuson against Patrick Cagney. The complaint represented that, on the 11th day of March, 1879, and long prior thereto, the plaintiff was, and had been, a resident of the city of Chicago, in the State ■of Illinois, and was by vocation a boat-builder, without any knowledge of farming, or of farming implements, or other property used, or grown upon, a farm; that about ten days prior to that time the plaintiff was approached by one Watkins, of said city of Chicago, who represented himself to be an agent and attorney of the defendant, and who then and there proposed to exchange'…