Legal Opinion

Famous Manufacturing Co. v. Wilcox

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided June 17, 1899PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig

This was an action of debt, brought by appellees, against appellant, a corporation of Chicago known as the Famous Manufacturing Company. The action was brought upon a judgment rendered in the' district court of Bear Lake county, in the State of Idaho. The cause was' tried in the circuit court on an agreed stipulation, and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, which, on appeal, was affirmed in the Appellate Court.

There is but one question involved in the record, and that is, whether the district court of Idaho, when the judgment sued upon was rendered, had jurisdiction of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mason v. AbbottIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
  2. Thompson v. EmmertIllinois Supreme Court · 1854

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Commercial State Bank v. FolkertsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1916
  2. Lyman v. WilliamsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1899
  3. City of Chicago v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1905
  4. Henricks v. HenricksAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1949

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