Legal Opinion

McCoy v. Williams

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1844PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Foreign Attachment, in the Ogle Circuit Court. The suit was brought by the appellee against one David Worden as principal defendant, and the appellant and others as garnishees, and service was had on the latter on the 25th of March, 1840. At the September term 1841, Worden made default, a jury was called, damages assessed, and a conditional judgment rendered against the garnishees.

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Foreign Attachment, in the Ogle Circuit Court. The suit was brought by the appellee against one David Worden as principal defendant, and the appellant and others as garnishees, and service was had on the latter on the 25th of March, 1840. At the September term 1841, Worden made default, a jury was called, damages assessed, and a conditional judgment rendered against the garnishees. At the March term 1842, McCoy, in obedience to a writ of scirefacias, answered the interrogatories filed by the plaintiff, and also a!> subsequent terms of the Court, answered additional interrogatories, which had…

1Opinion of the Court

The Opinion of the Court was delivered by

Scates, J.*

Williams sued out a foreign attachment against David Worden, and served process upon McCoy as garnishee, on the twenty fifth day of March, 1840. Judgment was rendered against Worden at the September term, 1841, for ninety five dollars and eighty cents.

Interrogatories were filed and answered, the answers excepted to, and additional interrogatories filed and answered; again excepted to, and further interrogatories filed and answered. At the July term 1844, the cause came on for hearing upon the answers. The Court found McCoy indebted to Worden…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Millett v. ParkerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1859

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Render v. LillardSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
  2. Benjamin v. MattlerColorado Court of Appeals · 1893
  3. Benjamin v. MattlerColorado Court of Appeals · 1893

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