People ex rel. Hambel v. McConnell
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an original proceeding for mandamus, to compel S. P. McConnell, one of the judges of the circuit court of Cook county, to hear and determine upon its merits a motion for a new trial, Judge Driggs, before whom the cause was tried, having died after the trial and before disposition of the motion. This is the second application, the writ upon the former proceeding having been denied.
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This is an original proceeding for mandamus, to compel S. P. McConnell, one of the judges of the circuit court of Cook county, to hear and determine upon its merits a motion for a new trial, Judge Driggs, before whom the cause was tried, having died after the trial and before disposition of the motion. This is the second application, the writ upon the former proceeding having been denied. People ex rel. v. McConnell, 146 Ill. 532. The petition in the present case represents, that heretofore there was, and is still, pending in the circuit court of Cook county a certain action at law, wherein…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
When this case was before us upon the former petition the writ was denied, for the reason, as will be seen by the opinion in that case, (146 Ill. 532,) that “no proof whatever was made as to what the evidence or proceedings at the trial were, nor was any offer made to supply such proof;” that although the relator’s attorney produced and exhibited to the judge a document which “he said was a transcript of the stenographer’s notes taken at the trial, but so far as the stipulation shows, he neither produced nor offered to produce any evidence that the document was a correct transcript of the…
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