Case ID: ill-app_210/html/0208-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edward T. Page, Appellant, v. Walton D. Suender, Appellee.
    Gen. No. 23,129.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Howard Hates, Judge, presiding.
    Heard .in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
    Reversed and judgment here.
    Opinion filed April 3, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Edward T. Page, plaintiff, against Walton D. Suender, defendant, to recover on a promissory note for $100 and interest. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
    Clarence A. Samuel, for appellant.
    No appearance for appellee.
   Mr. Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.

Abstract of the Decision.

Bnxs and notes, § BO*—what constitutes promissory note based upon sufficient consideration. A paper signed by a student in a school for advertising, subscribing for and acknowledging the receipt of a scholarship in the school and promising to pay to a certain person, the president of the school, a certain sum according to certain payments, and specifying the character of the instruction, was a promissory note, based upon sufficient consideration.