Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Kirchoff
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT. OP THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. This was a bill filed by Elizabeth Kirchoff in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, against the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, to compel a conveyance of two certain lots in accordance with an agreement between the company and herself on payment of the amount due thereunder as provided for.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT. OP THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. This was a bill filed by Elizabeth Kirchoff in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, against the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, to compel a conveyance of two certain lots in accordance with an agreement between the company and herself on payment of the amount due thereunder as provided for. The Circuit Court dismissed the bill on hearing, and the cause, after an ineffectual appeal directly to the state Supreme Court, 128 Illinois, 199, was carried to the Appellate Court, which reversed' the decree of the Circuit Court, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after making the foregoing statement, délivered the opinion of-the court.
When this case was before us on the prior writ of error we were obliged to dismiss the writ because the judgment sought to be reviewed was not final. Union Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Kirchoff, 160 U. S. 374. And the question whether, had this been otherwise, the jurisdiction could have been maintained, was necessarily not considered. That inquiry, however, now meets us on the threshold, as in order to invoke our jurisdiction on the ground of the denial of a title' or right claimed under the…
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