Clark v. Burke
Appellate Court of Illinois
Contempt of Court.—Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Orbin N. Carter, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895. Statement of the Case. On the 18th day of July, 1894, the Southern Hotel Company, a corporation, running the Southern Hotel at the corner of Twenty-second street and Wabash avenue, in Chicago, made a voluntary assignment to Brodie B. Davis.
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Contempt of Court.—Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Orbin N. Carter, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895. Statement of the Case. On the 18th day of July, 1894, the Southern Hotel Company, a corporation, running the Southern Hotel at the corner of Twenty-second street and Wabash avenue, in Chicago, made a voluntary assignment to Brodie B. Davis. Brodie B. Davis acted as assignee for a few days, when he came into the County Court and resigned. The resignation was accepted, and on the 24th day of July, 1894, Wallace C. Clark was appointed assignee…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
The order of March 9, 1895, finding, as it did, that the assignee had received certain funds and property, and ordering him to pay definite amounts to certain persons, was an appealable order, while a mere order of distribution of funds in his hands would not have been. Chi. Title & Trust Co. v. Caldwell, 53 Ill. App. 219; Stanton v. Andrews, 18 Ill. App. 552.
Ño appeal having been prosecuted from such order, it is insisted that upon the present appeal the court will review the entire proceeding and determine whether that order ou^ht to have been made. '
The court, upon an appeal from an order…
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