Wicks v. Wheeler
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edgab Eldbedge, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1910.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Willis
delivered the opinion of the court.
Cyrus D. Wheeler operated a grain elevator and entered into a contract with George Sampson, a tenant on a farm owned by Elbert C. Wicks, to purchase 2,000 bushels of corn at fifty-one cents per bushel. Sampson delivered 780 bushels to Wheeler and sold the balance to some one else, got the money and left the country. Wicks brought this suit in assumpsit against Wheeler to collect $330 of unpaid rent, owed by Sampson, and obtained a judgment for that amount which, on appeal to this court, was reversed, and the cause remanded. Wicks…
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