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Root v. Wentworth

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
May 22, 1940
305 Ill. App. 493 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

Opinion

Gen. No. 40,899. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 22, 1940

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, § 340payment, sufficiency of evidence. In action on note, lower court properly entered judgment for defendant notwithstanding verdict, where affirmative defense was established by uncontradicted evidence to the effect that a corporation received the consideration for the note, and that such note had been paid by the corporation, partly in cash and partly in stock.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Superior Court of Cook county; Hon. W.W. DAMRON, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in third division, first district, this court at October term, 1939.

Nelson, Slater Boodell, for appellant;

Drennan J. Slater and Thomas J. Boodell, of counsel;

Howard F. Bishop, for appellee;

Jerome J. Sladkey and George P. Novak, of counsel.


"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed May 22, 1940.


Summaries of

Root v. Wentworth

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
May 22, 1940
305 Ill. App. 493 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
Case details for

Root v. Wentworth

Case Details

Full title:Luella F. Root (Substituted for Nora O. Van Desalice, Executrix of Estate…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: May 22, 1940

Citations

305 Ill. App. 493 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
27 N.E.2d 651