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Laing v. Fish

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 13, 1905No. Gen. No. 11,798PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Bill for accounting. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook. County; the Hon. Julian W.. Mack, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Cook County, dismissing, for want of equity, appellant’s bill for an accounting.

Two pleas, one of res judicata, and the other that the-complainant had no title to the interest or indebtedness concerning which he demanded by his bill an accounting,, had been filed to said bill. The chancellor allowed said pleas and each of them. The complainant elected not to reply to them, and the bill was thereupon dismissed at his-costs.

The only question before us is whether or not these pleas are good. If either of them is good and was properly…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Reynolds v. Crawfordsville First National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. Dushane v. BeallSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. Dimock v. Revere Copper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
  4. King v. RemingtonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
  5. Burton v. PerryIllinois Supreme Court · 1893

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. People v. HessIllinois Supreme Court · 1955
  2. Stipe v. JeffersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1934
  3. Crawford v. HortonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
  4. Wright v. Abbott Capital Corp.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1979
  5. Morgan v. OwnbeySuperior Court of Delaware · 1923

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