People v. Seelye
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writ of error from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Ttjthill, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writ of error from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Ttjthill, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt, brought by the People of the State of Illinois against Henry E. Seelye, upon a guardian’s bond, of which the following is a copy: “Know all men by these presents, that we, Henry M. Curtis, ¡George F. Bissell, of the county of Cook and State of Illinois are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois, for the use of Stanley B. Sexton, minor, in the penal sum of one hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bailey
The errors assigned in this case in the Appellate Court presented four grounds upon which the defendant sought to obtain a reversal of the judgment of the Circuit Court, viz.:
1. That the failure of the guardian to comply with the order of the Probate Court of Cook county was not a breach of the condition of the bond upon which the suit was brought.
2. That the remedy by suit on said bond, at least as against the defendant, is barred by the Statute of Limitations.
3. That the order of the Probate Court of March 4,1880, was without jurisdiction and therefore void.
' 4. That the Circuit Court erred…
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