Blattau v. Evans
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Proceedings under the insolvent debtor’s act. Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Scales, Judge, presiding. Submitted at the October term, 1894,
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This was a proceeding arising under a petition by an insolvent debtor for leave to schedule, and that he be discharged from imprisonment, his allegation being that malice was not the gist of the action upon the judgment under which he had been imprisoned.
When the hearing in the County Court was had upon such petition, appellant offered no evidence tending to show that malice was not the gist of the action which had resulted in the judgment against him.
He rested his case entirely on a memorandum in the docket of the justice of…
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