Covill v. Phy
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action against the defendants, for trespass to personal property, damages, $500, directed to the sheriff of Kane county. Returned served same day.
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This was an action against the defendants, for trespass to personal property, damages, $500, directed to the sheriff of Kane county. Returned served same day. The first count of the declaration avers that the defendants, on the 23rd day of August, A. D. 1859, and on divers other days, etc., with force and arms, etc., at Montgomery, to wit, at the city of Aurora, county of Kane, aforesaid, took and carried away forty gallons of whisky, of the value of §500, then and there being found, and converted and disposed of the same, etc. Second count for carrying away like goods and chattels, etc.…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The question presented by this record, is, whether the Court of Common Pleas, of the city of Aurora, has the jurisdiction to send mesne process beyond the city limits ? This depends upon the statute, by which the court was organized. By the first section (Special Laws, 1857, p. 392,) it is enacted, that the court shall have concurrent jurisdiction within the city of Aurora with the Circuit Court, in all civil and criminal cases, except treason and murder. It also confers upon the court, the judge and the clerk, the same powers, authority and jurisdiction, to perform the same duties as the…
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