Quick v. Lemon
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Gardner, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Gardner, Judge, presiding. This was a creditor’s bill, brought by John E. Lemon, in the Superior Court of Cook county, against John H. S. Quick and John T. Temple, stockholders of the Prudential Life Association, to reach unpaid subscriptions to the capital stock of the corporation, to satisfy a judgment which the complainant had recovered against the corporation. On the hearing the Superior Court found that the appellee (complainant in the bill) had…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
Did the court err in refusing the motion of the defendant corporation to -file the cross-bill? Section 30, chapter 22, Revised Statutes of 1874, provides: “Any defendant may, after filing his answer, exhibit and file his cross-bill, and call upon the complainant to file his answer thereto, in such time as may be prescribed by the court.” In Jones v. Smith, 14 Ill. 229, it was held that a cross-bill was proper whenever the defendants, or any of them, have equities arising out of the subject matter of the original suit which entitle them to affirmative relief, which they can not obtain in that…
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