Grob v. Cushman
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the La Salle County Court. This was a bill in chancery filed in the County Court of La Salle county, by Cushman against Michael Grob and others. The bill alleges, that one Michael Minehard was the owner of certain lands in La Salle county, subject to a mortgage of $1,400, to one Wylie, dated in 1861; that in October, 1864, one Wm.
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Writ of Error to the La Salle County Court. This was a bill in chancery filed in the County Court of La Salle county, by Cushman against Michael Grob and others. The bill alleges, that one Michael Minehard was the owner of certain lands in La Salle county, subject to a mortgage of $1,400, to one Wylie, dated in 1861; that in October, 1864, one Wm. H. Robinson recovered a judgment against Minehard for $1,000, in the Circuit Court of said La Salle county, upon which execution was duly issued and levied upon the premises described, and the land sold on the 3d of December, 1864, subject to said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
It is first insisted that the La Salle County Court did not have jurisdiction of the subject matter of this cause; that the act of the legislature under which jurisdiction was claimed, never became a law in the mode prescribed by the Constitution. And counsel in their argument refer to the journals of the house in support of the position. On the trial below no evidence from the journals was introduced. But it is now urged, that, as they are public records, this court will take judicial notice of them, and not require them to be embodied in the evidence. It is true, that they are public…
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