Ritchie v. Pease
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A. Moran, Judge, presiding. On the 24th of December, 1880, Stephen L. Inslee filed his bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, wherein, among other things, he alleged that on August 28, 1878, Walter L. Pease was the owner of lot 28, in block 9, in Fort Dearborn addition to Chicago, subject to a mortgage to the United States Mortgage Comjiany, dated July 12, 1877, to-secure $18,000, etc., and subject…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A. Moran, Judge, presiding. On the 24th of December, 1880, Stephen L. Inslee filed his bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county, wherein, among other things, he alleged that on August 28, 1878, Walter L. Pease was the owner of lot 28, in block 9, in Fort Dearborn addition to Chicago, subject to a mortgage to the United States Mortgage Comjiany, dated July 12, 1877, to-secure $18,000, etc., and subject also to judgments hereinafter mentioned; that on the said 26th day of August, 1878, Pease was adjudicated a bankrupt by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The decree below must be reversed. The deed by the assignee in bankruptcy to Inslee can convey no title without rectification, and a State court is not empowered to review the decrees, judgments and orders, and rectify the errors therein, of a United States District Court. These propositions seem so self-evident that but little need be said in their support.
The material facts are, Walter L. Pease was, on the 28th of August, 1878, the owner of lot 28, in block 9, in Fort Dear-born addition to Chicago. On that day he filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court…
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