Case ID: ill-app_189/html/0341-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harry A. Biossat, Appellee, v. Sarah Betz Eckhardt, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 19,880.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. James C. Martin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed October 13, 1914.
    Rehearing denied October 27, 1914.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Corporations, § 1062
      
      —when finding as to payment of subscription price of stock sustained by the evidence. In an action for the subscription price of shares of capital stock, a finding by the trial court that a certain amount remained unpaid held sustained by the evidence.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Harry A. Biossat against Sarah Betz Eckhardt to recover the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars claimed to be due as the subscription price of twelve and one-half shares of capital stock issued to the defendant by the African-American Ostrich Feather Company. The defense was that the stock was fully paid for. The trial court found that there remained unpaid three hundred and fifty dollars and entered judgment in favor of plaintiff for that amount. To reverse the judgment, defendant appeals.
    Roman G. Lewis, for appellant.
    Harry A. Biossat, pro se.
    
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.