Legal Opinion

Farwell v. Sturges

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided November 9, 1896PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Wbit op Ebbob to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mubbay F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error sued out by John V. Farwell, against Bessie McLeod Sturges, James H. Wilkerson, administrator of the estate of William Sturges, deceased, and the other defendants in error, to reverse a decree entered by the circuit court of Cook county on the 21st day of June, 1894, at the June term of said court, in a proceeding in said court heard and determined by the…

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Wbit op Ebbob to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mubbay F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error sued out by John V. Farwell, against Bessie McLeod Sturges, James H. Wilkerson, administrator of the estate of William Sturges, deceased, and the other defendants in error, to reverse a decree entered by the circuit court of Cook county on the 21st day of June, 1894, at the June term of said court, in a proceeding in said court heard and determined by the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, one of the judges thereof, under and by virtue of an act entitled “An act to enable parties to avoid…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter

It was shown on the suggestion of a diminution of the record and motion for leave to file the additional record, the decision of which was reserved to the final hearing, that the cause in the circuit court mentioned in such additional record and the cause mentioned in the first transcript filed as a return to the writ of error were one and the same, though it cannot be so determined from the certificates of the clerk. No attempt is made by plaintiff in error to disprove the showing made that the cause mentioned in the additional record, and of which it is in part a transcript, is the same…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Schirmer v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1864
  2. Austin v. BainterIllinois Supreme Court · 1866

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. West Chicago Park Commissioners v. RiddleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1909
  2. Tobias v. TobiasAppellate Court of Illinois · 1914
  3. McCormick v. HigginsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1914
  4. Leahy v. StoneAppellate Court of Illinois · 1904
  5. King City Building & Loan Ass'n v. GreenAppellate Court of Illinois · 1930

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