Meilinger v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Debt, on a bond. Trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. Finding and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Freeman
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action in debt on a sealed instrument. The condition of the bond as set forth in the declaration, is that appellants are “ bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the penal sum of $1,500, for the payment of which” they bind themselves, the condition being that one George A. Weimer should pay the clerk of the Circuit Court " $676.76, with interest, etc., on the 15th day of March, 1897.
It appears that Weimer, as supervisor of the town of Lemont, had been commanded by a peremptory writ of mandamus, issued out of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Pitts Sons' Manufacturing Co. v. Commercial National BankIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
- Chicago Sectional Electric Underground Co. v. Congdon Brake Shoe Manufacturing Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Freeman v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- Palmer v. HarrisIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
- Miles v. GoodwinIllinois Supreme Court · 1864
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3Cited by1 opinion
- People v. WeimerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901