Hunter v. Empire State Surety Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John J. Rooney, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the opinion filed by the Supreme Court (Hunter v. Empire State Surety Co., 261 Ill. 335), the court held that the constitutional questions raised by plaintiffs in error are not involved in this suit, for the reason that the proceedings and judgment in the replevin suit, even if erroneous, were not void and cannot be • collaterally attacked in this suit on the replevin bond.
It is urged that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence the order—called by counsel for plaintiffs in error an “expanded judgment”—entered in the…
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