Streff v. Colteaux

Appellate Court of Illinois

Streff v. Colteaux

64 Ill. App. 179, 1896 Ill. App. LEXIS 871

CourtAppellate Court of Illinois

DecidedApril 27, 1896

StatusPublished

Cited by3 cases

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Streff v. Colteaux, 64 Ill. App. 179, 1896 Ill. App. LEXIS 871 (Ill. Ct. App. 1896).

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Mr. Justice Waterman

delivebed the opinion oe the Coubt.

In this action the plaintiff below filed a declaration containing three special counts in assumpsit, the second of which is, substantially, the common quantum meruit count. To this declaration the defendant below filed a special demurrer, which was in his absence overruled.

Thereafter, also in the absence of the defendant below, a trial, verdict and judgment for the plaintiff were had.

It is said that the declaration was signed only by an impression thereon of the names of plaintiffs’ attorneys, made by a rubber stamp.

We are not aware of any authority to the effect that one may not so sign his name. It is ordinarly the act of making a paper one’s own that is important, rather than the manner of so doing. Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, Vol. 27, p. 781.

The demurrer to the declaration was properly sustained and the judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.

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