People ex rel. Hoyt v. McGrath
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Edward M. Mangan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiffs are seeking, by an action on his bond, to recover $577.50 paid to the defendant Richard J. McGrath, clerk of the Superior Court of Cook county, in a proceeding in court. The defense was that the money was lost by the clerk without his fault. We are informed by counsel that other sums totaling about $22,000 have been deposited with the clerk, Mr. Mc-Grath, under similar circumstances and lost.
The declaration alleges that in an action pending in the Superior Court, James Mitchell Hoyt and Emma Patten Hoyt paid into…
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