Legal Opinion

Bowden v. Bowden

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1874PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county; the Hon. William Brown, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt, brought by Bichard Bowden,upon a promissory note. The opinion states the facts involved.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese

This was debt, in the Jo Daviess circuit court, on a promissory note, with the common counts, brought by Bichard Bowden against William Bowden. The plea was nil debet, and tried by the court without a jury.

The court heard the ease and found for the plaintiff, assessing the damages at two thousand and thirty-two dollars and forty three cents, and rendered judgment accordingly. The defendant brings the record here by writ of error, assigning as error a judgment in damages, when the action was debt.

The only evidence before the court was the note sued on. Nothing was claimed on the common counts.

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2Cited by13 opinions

  1. Italian-Swiss Agricultural Colony v. PeaseIllinois Supreme Court · 1901
  2. Metropolitan Accident Ass'n v. FroilandIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  3. Grand Lodge A. O. U. W. v. BagleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  4. People v. KaneIllinois Supreme Court · 1919
  5. Utter v. JaffrayAppellate Court of Illinois · 1884

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