Sill v. Pate
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. O. E. Heard, 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. O. E. Heard, Judge, presiding. It appears from the pleadings and proofs that on February 5, 1902, the appellant was the owner of a promissory note bearing date October 26, 1895, for the sum of $2500, bearing interest at six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, signed by Mary A. Jones and Stephen B. Jones, payable to the order of themselves and by them endorsed, and that the time of payment of said note at its maturity was extended by the appellant for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
The court admitted in evidence the bill but declined to admit in evidence the decree in the case commenced by the appellant against Freudenberg and Weiss, and the first contention of the appellant is that the court erred in declining to admit in evidence the decree in that case against the defendants. The defendants were not parties, either complainant or defendant, in that suit, and they had purchased said notes and trust deeds long before the suit was commenced. We think it therefore too plain for argument that the decree entered in that case did not bind them and that the court did not err…
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