Shepard v. Ogden
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was tried in the Court below, at the November term, 1837, before the Hon. Thomas Ford. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $ 876,45 and costs. The defendant prosecuted a writ of error to this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtLockwood, Justice
This was an action of assumpsit commenced by Ogden against Shepard, in the Municipal Court of the city of Chicago. The first process, which was a capias, was founded on the usual affidavit, that the plaintiff would be in danger of losing his debt in case the defendant was not held to bail; and that the indebtedness arose in the city of Chicago, and that the plaintiff was a resident of said city. The capias was directed to the sheriff of the county of Will, where the defendant was arrested and held to bail.
The declaration, as originally filed, contained the common money counts, with a count on…
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