Thomson v. Miner

Full title: Helen M. Thomson, Appellee, v. W. C. Miner, Appellant

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District

Date published: Jan 15, 1940

303 Ill. App. 335 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

25 N.E.2d 137

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,208. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed January 15, 1940.

FRAUD AND DECEIT, § 14^_ — promise to do future act. Where plaintiff charged that defendant induced her to deposit stock with a certain company, promising that the stock would be returned by the company upon 15 days' notice, such promise to do a future act would not ground an action for fraud and deceit.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of McDonough county; Hon. RILEY E. STEVENS, presiding. Reversed and remanded. Heard in this court at October term, 1939; opinion filed January 15, 1940.

Gumbart Grigsby, for appellant; Burnett M. Chiperfield, Claude E. Chiperfield and Robert B. Chiperfield, for appellee.

Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE RIESS.

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