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Anderson v. Hawhe

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided November 14, 1885PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. H. M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. The judgment, the payment of which was sought to be enforced by the creditor’s hill in this case, was obtained under the following circumstances: John and Johanna Anderson, on the 3d day of October, 1879, commenced a suit by attachment in the circuit court of Cook county, against Mary H. Hawhe.

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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. H. M. Shepard, Judge, presiding. The judgment, the payment of which was sought to be enforced by the creditor’s hill in this case, was obtained under the following circumstances: John and Johanna Anderson, on the 3d day of October, 1879, commenced a suit by attachment in the circuit court of Cook county, against Mary H. Hawhe. On June 9; 1880, the following demurrer was filed: “And the said defendant, by John W. Waughop, her attorney, comes and says the…

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. .Justice Craig

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This was a creditor’s bill, brought by Charles L. Anderson, to enforce payment of a judgment rendered in the circuit court of Cook county, on the 18th day of December, 1882, in favor of John and Johanna Anderson, against Mary H. Hawhe, for the sum of $1617. The defendant, Mary H. Hawhe, put in an answer to the bill, and also filed her cross-bill, in which she set up that the circuit court, in which the judgment was rendered against her, had no jurisdiction over the person; that she never was served with process, did not appear in the case,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Higgins v. CurtissIllinois Supreme Court · 1876

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Hirsch Bros. & Co. v. R. E. Kennington Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1929
  2. Ely v. United States Coal Coke CompanyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1932
  3. Gray v. Natl. Bank of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1944
  4. McEachern v. BrackettWashington Supreme Court · 1894
  5. Cassidy v. Automatic Time Stamp Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1900

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