Case ID: ill-app_183/html/0178-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice F. A. Smith", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

States Printing Company, Defendant in Error, v. Leven Advertising Company, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 18,571.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles E. Jennings, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1912.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed November 4, 1913.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Currier Printing Company, a corporation, whose name was later changed to the States Printing Company, against Leven-Nichols Advertising Company, a corporation, whose name was later changed to Leven Advertising Company, on a claim for printing done by the plaintiff on the order of the defendant. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for $172.50, defendant brings error.
    Isaac S. Rothschild, for plaintiff in error; Hugo M. Friend, of counsel.
    Nathan S. Schoenbrod and Blum & Blum, for defendant in error.
   Mr. Presiding Justice F. A. Smith

delivered the opinion of the court.

Abstract of the Decision.

Principal and agent, § 181*—when agent contracting as principal, personally liable. In an action for printing of booklets and envelopes for the use of a third party, finding of trial court that defendant was liable on account of having ordered and supervised the printing work done, held sustained by the evidence.