Taylor v. Elliott

A judgment was rendered in favor of Calvin A. Elliott against Quartus Taylor, in the Marion Civil Circuit Court. Afterwards, on May 1st, 1873, said Taylor departed this life. A little more than a year afterwards, viz., on the 14th day of May, 1874, he appears by the record to have appealed from the judgment against him to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, not taking judicial notice of the fact that Taylor was dead, and no evidence of the fact being furnished, proceeded on the supposition that he was alive, and decided the case, reversing the judgment of the Marion Civil Circuit Court.…