Hooper v. McCaffery

The published rules of this court require that briefs shall be filed in all causes here, and that they shall “ contain a short, clear statement of the points and authorities in support thereof.”

There has been in this record a disregard by the plaintiff in error of the requirement of the rule in that behalf, and what was said in Anonymous, 40 Ill. 59, might properly be applied. “ Had this been an appeal, or had a supersedeas been granted, we should have dismissed the cause, on account of the neglect on the part of the counsel for the plaintiff in error to comply with the rules of this court in…