Fowler Cycle Works v. Fraser & Chalmers
Appellate Court of Illinois
Distress for Kent.—Three cases consolidated. Appeals from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. George W. Patton presiding in one case, and the Hon. Edward P. Vail in the other two. Heard in this court at the October term, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ball
In case Ho. 10,883 appellee filed a distress warrant against appellant to recover two and one-half months’ rent, due August 1, 1900, for certain premises leased by the former to the latter. Appellant filed the general issue and a special plea. To this special plea (which in fact is six pleas combined in one) appellee, after craving oyer of the lease and setting it out in full, so that, for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of the plea, it became a part of the record, demurred to the same- This demurrer was sustained, and appellant was given ten days within Avhich to file additional…
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- Friedman v. SchwabacherAppellate Court of Illinois · 1896
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