Billingsley v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Attachment for Contempt.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Windes
The Circuit Court of Cook County, in the case of Preis v. Billingsley, the appellant here, on June 20,1898, after a hearing upon the master’s report and evidence of the parties, entered a decree finding in substance that appellant was indebted to Preis for money loaned, to secure which he delivered to the latter certain whisky, which was afterward, though wrongfully and fraudulently, replevied by Billingsley and in his possession at the time of the appointment of the receiver in that case; that on January 4, 1898, an injunction in the case was served upon appellant restraining him from…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People ex rel. Hinckley v. PirfenbrinkIllinois Supreme Court · 1879
- Gurney v. TuftsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1853
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