Heggie v. Smith

Mr. Presiding Justice Crabtree

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellants brought this suit in assumpsit against appellees, to recover the price of seventeen iron “ skips,” amounting to $1,020, which skips were manufactured by appellants and delivered to Dion Geraldine, who was a subcontractor under appellees on the sanitary drainage canal.

Appellants were boiler-makers in the city of Joliet, and manufactured the skips in question upon an order given to them by Geraldine. Thus far there is no dispute, but the claim of appellants is, that the skips were delivered for the use and benefit of…