Legal Opinion
Shattuck v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1843Published
The judgment in this cause was,rendered by default in the court below, at the October term, 1843, the Hon. James Shields presiding, for $300, the penalty in the recognizance. The defendants brought the cause to this court by writ of error. cited R. L. 220-2, §§ 8, 5, 6; 8 Blackf. 108, 385; Breese 165, 257; 3 J. J. Marsh. 642. cited 1 Blackf. 339; 3 Blackf. 334; Breese 285; 17 Wend. 255.
1Opinion of the CourtTreat, Justice
The scire facias states that on the 16th of May, 1843, there was filed in the clerk’s office of the Madison circuit court a recognizance in these words:
“ Know all men by these presents that we, Francis Van Am-berg, William Shattuck, and G. W. Richardson, are held and firmly bound by these presents to The People of the State of Illinois, for the use of the inhabitants of the county of Madison, in the penal sum of three hundred dollars, for the true payment of which sum, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, administrators, executors, or assigns, by these presents. Given…
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