Holbrook v. Ford
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court reversing an order or decree of the Superior Court of Cook County, finding appellee guilty of contempt of court and directing him to be attached and arrested and imprisoned in the county jail, until he should dismiss certain attachment proceedings begun by him in the States of Nebraska and Missouri, as hereinafter stated. The material facts are as follows : Charles…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
It is claimed that the decree of the Superior Court is erroneous, because it enures to the benefit of Palmer, the non-resident complainant in the creditor’s bill, rather than to the benefit of Ford, the attaching creditor in the foreign States, who is a resident of the State of Illinois.
• Where the controversy is between a foreign receiver, assignee or trustee, and an attaching creditor who resides in the State where the attachment proceeding is instituted, the courts of the latter State will protect its own citizen. This doctrine proceeds upon the ground, that such an official, appointed…
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