REPORTS

OF

CASES AT LAW AND IN CHANCERY

ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS.

NORMAN L. FREEMAN,

REPORTER.

VOLUME 120.

CONTAINING CASES IN WHICH OPINIONS WERE FILED IN NOVEMBER, 1886,
AND IN JANUARY, MARCH AND MAY, 1887, AND SOME CASES IN
WHICH APPLICATIONS FOR REHEARING WERE DENIED

AT THE MAY AND JUNE TERMS, 1887.

PRINTED FOR THE REPORTER.

SPRINGFIELD:

1887.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by

NORMAN L. FREEMAN,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

JOHN H. MULKEY, CHIEF JUSTICE.

JOHN M. SCOTT,* CHIEF JUSTICE.
BENJAMIN R. SHELDON,
JOHN SCHOLFIELD,
ALFRED M. CRAIG,
JOHN H. MULKEY,

JUSTICES.
JOHN M. SCOTT,*
SIMEON P. SHOPE,
BENJAMIN D. MAGRUDER,

ATTORNEY GENERAL,
GEORGE HUNT.

REPORTER,
NORMAN L. FREEMAN.

CLERK IN THE SOUTHERN GRAND DIVISION,

J. O. CHANCE, Mt. Vernon.

CLERK IN THE CENTRAL GRAND DIVISION,
ETHAN A. SNIVELY, Springfield.

CLERK IN THE NORTHERN GRAND DIVISION,
ALFRED H. TAYLOR, Ottawa.

*Mr. Justice Scott became Chief Justice at the June term, 1886.