Garden City Sand Co. v. Miller
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. L. C. Collins, Judge, presiding. Appellees, as vendors, filed their bill for specific performance against appellant, as assignee of one Harpold, vendee of certain lands in Manitou county, State of Michigan. The evidence shows that Eva M. McKinnon and Romaine I. Wendell are minor heirs of Jacob A. T. Wendell, deceased, and that Anna M. Miller was his widow, he dying in Michigan, intestate.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. L. C. Collins, Judge, presiding. Appellees, as vendors, filed their bill for specific performance against appellant, as assignee of one Harpold, vendee of certain lands in Manitou county, State of Michigan. The evidence shows that Eva M. McKinnon and Romaine I. Wendell are minor heirs of Jacob A. T. Wendell, deceased, and that Anna M. Miller was his widow, he dying in Michigan, intestate. The evidence also shows that in August, 1889, the said Anna M. Miller, (then Wendell,) as guardian of the said Eva M. McKinnon and Romaine I. Wendell,…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam: The transcript of the chancery court of Michigan which authorized the guardian to. make the sale and approved the contract is attested by the certificate of the clerk, under the seal of the court. The attestation is not in accordance with the act of Congress, which requires the presiding judge to certify the attestation of the clerk is in due form. The admission of that transcript in evidence is assigned as error.
Prior to 1872 there was no statute in this State providing for the manner of attestation of the judgments of the courts of another State to make the same evidence in the…
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