Singer v. Hutchinson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming- a decree rendered on a creditor’s bill filed by appellees January 7, 1898, against the Singer & Talcott Stone Company and others, as defendants, to reach the assets of the Sing'er & Talcott Stone Company in the possession of the defendants, as stockholders. Edward T. Singer, Charles G. Singer, Walter Singer, Harriet A. Singer, Charles B. Kimball, Spencer…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
It is first claimed by appellants in the argument that the judgment recovered in the law court against the stone company is not proper evidence of the existence of a claim against the corporation to charge property in good faith distributed to appellants, they not being parties thereto. It is a well settled rule that a judgment rendered in a court of competent jurisdiction is conclusive between parties and privies in regard to all matters of controversy determined by the judgment, and all persons represented by the parties, both plaintiff and defendant, are bound and concluded as privies by…
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