Legal Opinion

Merchants' National Bank v. Lyon

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 17, 1900PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. T. M. Shaw, Judge, presiding. This was a creditor’s bill filed by the Merchants’ National Bank of Peoria on April 22, 1892, in the circuit court of Peoria county, asking for discovery and relief against George W. Lyon, Aaron Lyon, (now deceased,) Weston Arnold and Theodore Miller.

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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. T. M. Shaw, Judge, presiding. This was a creditor’s bill filed by the Merchants’ National Bank of Peoria on April 22, 1892, in the circuit court of Peoria county, asking for discovery and relief against George W. Lyon, Aaron Lyon, (now deceased,) Weston Arnold and Theodore Miller. The bill was based upon a judgment, recovered on October 21, 1891, against George W. Lyon for the sum of $3438.65, upon certain notes given the bank by him.as renewals of…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig

The Merchants’ National Bank, the complainant in the original bill and the appellee in the Appellate Court, assigned no cross-errors in that court to the findings of the trial court that there was no equity in the bill so far as it attacked the validity of the conveyance by George W. Lyon to Weston Arnold of the property known as Jefferson Park and the lots referred to as being in Peoria fair subdivision, thus sustaining the exceptions to the master’s report and dismissing the bill so far as it related to said conveyance. Neither were cross-errors assigned as to the finding of the court that…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Farwell v. NilssonIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
  2. Wightman v. HartIllinois Supreme Court · 1865
  3. Myers v. KinzieIllinois Supreme Court · 1861

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. McKey v. McKeanIllinois Supreme Court · 1943
  2. McVeigh v. McGurrenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1940
  3. Luthy & Co. v. ParadisIllinois Supreme Court · 1921
  4. Ayers National Bank v. BarberIllinois Supreme Court · 1919
  5. Barnes v. WardAppellate Court of Illinois · 1914

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