People v. Barr
Illinois Supreme Court
This petition by Jehial H. Montgomery, of the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, represents, that Lyman E. Montgomery, on the 23rd day of September, A. D. 1858, in vacation after the June term of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora, A. D. 1858, by confession before Hon. A. C. Gibson, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora, recovered a judgment against Robert Jones and Peter Jones, for the sum of three hundred and forty-one dollars and…
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This petition by Jehial H. Montgomery, of the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, represents, that Lyman E. Montgomery, on the 23rd day of September, A. D. 1858, in vacation after the June term of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora, A. D. 1858, by confession before Hon. A. C. Gibson, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora, recovered a judgment against Robert Jones and Peter Jones, for the sum of three hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-five cents, besides costs, in said court. That said judgment was regularly and legally obtained, and now remains in…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
We do not understand that the case to which reference has been made by the defendant, The People ex relatione Beebe v. Evans, 18 Ill. R. 361, decides the question presented by this record, or as having any particular bearing on it, except as expressing the views of this court as to the territorial jurisdiction of such inferior courts as may be established by the General Assembly in the cities of this State, in pursuance of the first section of the fifth article of the constitution.
The objection which prevailed in that case was, that by the act of the General Assembly the grant of jurisdiction…
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