Legal Opinion

Jenkins v. International Bank

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 3, 1881PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on error to the Circuit Court of Cook county.

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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on error to the Circuit Court of Cook county. This is a writ of error, seeking to reverse the judgment of the Appellate Court of the First District, affirming a decree of the circuit court of Cook county, rendered April 25,1878, in which decree the circuit court found Samuel J. Walker indebted to the International Bank, on January 15,1878, in the sum of $172,474; and for the satisfaction of this debt ordered the sale of certain collaterals before that time assigned and transferred by Walker to the bank. This…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Dickey

Walker having been declared a bankrupt pending this litigation, it is insisted by defendant in error that Jenkins, his assignee in bankruptcy, can not prosecute the writ of error in this case, because, as it is said, he was not a party to the suit before decree, and does not have any interest in the subject matter. This question was decided in favor of the right of the assignee in such a case to be heard in this court (in the case of Jenkins v. Greenbaum et al. 95 Ill. 11), and needs no further consideration here.

The objections raised by plaintiff in error to the validity of the charter of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Badger v. LœwenthalIllinois Supreme Court · 1879
  2. Jenkins v. GreenbaumIllinois Supreme Court · 1880

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Cook v. WolfIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  2. Hirsh v. ArnoldIllinois Supreme Court · 1925
  3. Brown v. FrenkenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
  4. McMahan v. RubleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1918
  5. Marks v. PopeAppellate Court of Illinois · 1937

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