Britton v. Chamberlain
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. H. Frost, Judge, presiding.
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Writ or Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. H. Frost, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt commenced by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error, in the superior court of Cook county, upon a decree for alimony entered by the Supreme Court of New York in favor of the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, on the 12th day of May, 1897, in a chancery suit pending on that day in said court, in which a decree for divorce was entered in favor of the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiee Justice Hand
delivered the opinion of the court:
The first contention of the plaintiff in error is, that the certified copy of the decree of the Supreme Court of New York, upon which a recovery was allowed, was not properly certified. The declaration was based upon a decree of the Supreme Court of New York, and the clerk, under the seal of said court, certified that he was clerk of the county' of Erie and clerk of the Supreme Court in and for said county, and .that the instrument offered in evidence was a true and complete copy of a judgment on file and a matter of record in the…
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