Meserve v. Clark
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on writ of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Kirk Hawes, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mulket
John Clark, Jr., on the 13th of April, 1870, recovered a judgment in the Superior Court of Cook county, against John Clark and Albert Brinkerhoff, for $191.50. The defendants in the judgment prayed an appeal to this court, which was allowed, “on their filing their appeal bond therein in the penalty of $400, with security, to be approved by one of the judges of that court.” On the 23d of the same month an appeal bond was filed in the cause, signed by Brinkerhoff, and Curtis C. Meserve, as his surety, defendant Clark not joining in the appeal. Brinkerhoff having failed to prosecute the appeal…
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