St. Clair County IL Archives Court.....Cornelius, V Vanorsdall 1819-31
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Source: Reports Of Cases Illinois
Written: 1819-31

SUPREME COURT of the STATE OF ILLINOIS.
JULY TERM, 1820, AT KASKASKIA.

Present, JOSEPH PHILIPS, Chief Justice.
JOHN REYNOLDS, THOMAS C. BROWNE, Associate Justices.

Joseph Cornelius, Plaintiff in error, v. Simon Vanorsdall, Assignee of John De 
Rush, Defendant in error.

ERROR TO ST. CLAIR.

A plea alleging a failure of consideration is insufficient, without setting 
out wherein the failure consists.

Opinion of the Court. In this case there was a plea alleging a failure of 
consideration, to which there was a demurrer. The demurrer having been 
sustained by the court below, this writ of error is prosecuted, to reverse 
that judgment. It is considered by the court, on the authority of the case of 
Taylor v. Sprinkle, decided at the last term, that the judgment of the court 
below be affirmed. (a) (1)

Judgment affirmed.
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(a) Taylor v. Sprinkle, ante p. 17. Poole v. Vanlandingham, post p. Bradshaw 
v. Newman.
 
(1) See note to Taylor v. Sprinkle, ante, page 17.

Additional Comments:
Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the 
Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, From its First Organization in 1819, 
to the End of December Term, 1831. By Sidney Breese, Counsellor at Law. Second 
Edition, with Additional Notes, By Edwin Beecher. Chicago: Callaghan & 
Company, 1877.

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