Kantsky v. Atwood

Citations

• 79 Ill. 204

Syllabus

<p>1. Contract—description of parties. The fact that parties executing a contract, who were members of a mere partnership firm, are described in the body thereof by the name of a planing mill company, does not affect the validity of the contract.</p> <p>2. Same—regarded as the contract of parties executing it. In the body of a lease, the parties of the first part were described as the New' England Planing Mill Co., but it was executed by a firm, who were the planing mill company, in their firm name: Held, that the lease was to be regarded as the contract of the parties who executed it in the firm name, and that it was not affected by the statute prohibiting companies not in. corporated from assuming a corporate name.</p>