Sears Roebuck & Co. v. Wolf

Plaintiff brought suit against C. J. Wolf and a number of other persons who, it was alleged, were officers or members of the West Suburban Tornado Relief Committee, a voluntary unincorporated association, to recover $823.17 claimed to be due and owing to plaintiff for freight charges and other expenses incurred in connection with the sale by plaintiff of ten portable houses to the defendants. The case was tried and there was a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor against the defendant C. J. Wolf for $467.08 and he appeals.

The record discloses that on March 28, 1920, there was a tornado…