Spraggins v. Houghton

And now, at this day, comes the said Thomas Spraggins, the appellant, by counsel, and suggests to the Court here, that the case made and agreed to in this cause, between the parties to the record, and submitted to the Circuit Court of the county of Jo Daviess, and upon which the judgment of the said Court was rendered, as appears by the record, is not a real case between the parties, but a fictitious one ; and thereupon files a motion to dismiss this case for the reasons following :

“ 1st. The record in the case shows an improbable state of facts ; all the facts having occurred after the case…