Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Courts of the State of Illinois (Volume 40)
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Courts of the State of Illinois (Volume 40)


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... Vol. 40. Cummings v. Toss. Sylvester D. Foss testifies as follows: "D. B. Strong, Joseph Reynolds and myself are the plaintiffs. Firm name was Foss, Strong & Company, commission business, in the city of Chicago. Am acquainted with some of the defendants. Our firm had transactions with the defendants in 1888. We bought a number of million bushels of corn for the syndicate. I can not give the date of the transaction. The first man that spoke to me was S. A. Brown. He told me there was a combination. They were forming to buy up the cash corn, as there was no cash corn--no corn in the country hardly. lIe said his parties were in the grain business, that there was only a small amount of corn in the country, and by buying up the cash corn the market would advance. He said they were coming up from the country and were going to have a meeting. They had their meeting. He asked me to go over to the Grand Pacific and meet these gentlemen. I met them. They were in one of the rooms at the Grand Pacific. I did not know the men whom I first met there; was introduced to them. They are the defendants in this case. There-was Bushnell, Hartley, Brown, Cu mmings and Moore, Thompson, of the Rice Elevator Company, and a number more whose names I can not think of. They proposed to buy up May corn and" pay for cash corn, and the market would rise by so doing. "They had a committee appointed of four or five that gave all the orders--Plartley and Ross and Brown and Bushnell and Moore, I think. After my interview with them at the Grand Pacific, the committee called on me the next day, two or three of them: I think Hartley was treasurer of the syndicate. They had each one of them a house of their own; that is, houses which they did their business with here in Chicago, on the Board o...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150089862
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150089865
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 390 gr

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