Fisher v. Sievres

The bill in chancery in this case, filed in the circuit court of Cook county, sets forth that on the 2d day of August, 1871, in a suit at law, wherein Sievres was plaintiff and Fisher defendant, a judgment was recovered by the former against the latter in the said circuit court for the sum of $125, and that on the 9th day of October, 1871, the court house in the city of Chicago, together with all the books, papers and records of said court, and of its clerk’s office, among which were the files and the record of said suit and said judgment, was wholly consumed and destroyed by fire.

The bill…