People v. Brooks
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, J.
This was debt on a guardian’s bond, brought by the people, for the use of Sexton, against Jane A. Brooks, the widow and heir at law of Joseph P. Brooks, one of the sureties on the bond. A former judgment in favor of the plaintiffs was reversed by this court on writ of error • at the October term, 1884, on the ground that the evidence, as it then stood, failed to show a delivery of the bond during the lifetime of said Brooks. Brooks v. People, 15 Ill. App. 570. A new trial has now been had in the court below before the court, a jury being waived, resulting in a finding and judgment in favor of…
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