Legal Opinion

Guffin v. First National Bank

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1874PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside county; the Hon. William W. Heaton, Judge, presiding. This was a creditor’s bill filed by the First National Bank of Morrison, against Thomas Guffin and Sarah Guffin. The opinion states the material facts of the case.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott

This is a creditor’s bill, which seeks to discover assets alleged to be in the hands of Sarah Guffin, but charged to be in reality the property of Thomas Guffin, the other appellant, and to have so much as might be necessary for that purpose appropriated to the payment of a judgment recovered by appellee versus Thomas Guffin, impleaded with Charles 0. Guffin and John E. Baird. The indebtedness on which the judgment was obtained was incurred originally for a loan to the firm of Guffin & Co. made to them on the 15th day of April, 1872, on whose note, to the bank, Thomas Guffin was security. The…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sands v. CodwiseCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1808

3Cited by12 opinions

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  3. Lawson v. FunkIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
  4. McKey v. CochranIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
  5. Jones v. KingIllinois Supreme Court · 1877

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