Foy v. Blackstone
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of "Whiteside comity, the Hon. JohN Y. Eustace, Judge, presiding. George Eoy, the appellant, having subscribed ten shares of one hundred dollars each, to the capital stock of the Camancke, Albany and Mendota Railroad Company, executed his bond to the company therefor, on the 10th of February, 1857, payable ten years after its date; and on the same day the said Eoy executed and delivered to the company his coupon note for one year’s interest on…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of "Whiteside comity, the Hon. JohN Y. Eustace, Judge, presiding. George Eoy, the appellant, having subscribed ten shares of one hundred dollars each, to the capital stock of the Camancke, Albany and Mendota Railroad Company, executed his bond to the company therefor, on the 10th of February, 1857, payable ten years after its date; and on the same day the said Eoy executed and delivered to the company his coupon note for one year’s interest on said bond, as follows : “ Pkophetstowit, Feb. 10, 1851. “ On the first day of March, 1859, I promise to pay to the order…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beeese
All the questions raised on this record have been decided in the case of Goodrich v. Reynolds, Wilder & Co., ante, 490, except one, and that arises upon the sixth assignment of error, which is, that the court rejected certain evidence offered by the defendant.
It appears from the record, the defendant offered to prove when the bond and coupon notes were given by him to the company, it was agreed between him and the company, acting by A. J. Matson, a director of the company, that the note was to be kept by the company in the possession of Matson as the director and agent of the company, and…
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