Case ID: ill_62/html/0232-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Thornton", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Alfred Gregory v. Legrand L. Wells.
    1. Tender—after suit. In a suit to recover unliquidated damages for breach of contract, the defendant filed a plea averring a tender of money after suit brought, to which the court sustained a demurrer : Held, that the plea was not a good.defense,-either at common law or under our statute.
    Writ OF Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois County; the Hon. Charles E. Starr, Judge, presiding.
    Messrs. Hoff & Doyle, for the plaintiff in error.
   Mr. Justice Thornton

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This suit was instituted upon a written contract tó deliver corn, and damages are claimed for its breach.

A plea of tender was interposed, averring a tender of money after the commencement of the suit, to which a demurrer was sustained.

The damages to be recovered were for a breach of the contract, and were unliquidated.

In such case this court has decided, in Cilley v Hawkins, 48. Ill. 309, that a plea of tender is not a good plea, either at common law or under our statute.

The demurrer was properly sustained, and the judgment is affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.