Legal Opinion

Beach v. Bestor

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1868PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. Erastus S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This case was originally heard at the September term, 1861, and is reported in 45 Ill. 341. It comes before the court at this term upon a re-hearing.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker

It appears that George C. Bestor filed a bill in chancery against plaintiff in error and others, for the purpose of reaching a fund in the hands of a receiver, and out of which to satisfy a judgment at law which he had obtained against Richard B. Morgan. A number of creditors came in and filed bills to be permitted to participate in the fund, upon the ground that the assignment by Morgan, of the claim out of which the fund was produced, was fraudulent as to Morgan’s creditors. The case was decided, so far as it related to Bestor’s claim, at the September term, 1867, (45 Ill. 341,) but the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Beach v. BestorIllinois Supreme Court · 1867

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Stoddard v. BentonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1883
  2. Goetter, Weil & Co. v. Smith Bros.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1894
  3. Hutmacher ex rel. Brinton v. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'nAppellate Court of Illinois · 1897
  4. Wooldridge v. IrvingUnited States Circuit Court · 1884

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