Niagara Fire Insurance v. Scammon
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtGary, P. J.
When this appeal was docketed in this court, Jonathan Young Scammon, of whose estate the appellee is administratrix, was yet alive. More than fifty years earlier, and while the circuit judges whose names appear in this record were yet unborn, he had been appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State, and four volumes bearing his name are witnesses of the fidelity with which he performed the labor he undertook, and of the ability of the early judges of that court during a period of eleven years.
At the September term, 1889, of the Circuit Court, this case was submitted…
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