Hill v. Harding
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court of the First District; the Hon. Theodore D. Murphy, presiding Justice, and Hon. Geo. W. Pleasants and Hon. Joseph M. Bailey, Justices. On the 16th of March, 1877, appellees sued out of the circuit court of Cook county a writ of attachment against the estate of appellant, which was on the same day levied on certain lands as the property of appellant.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court of the First District; the Hon. Theodore D. Murphy, presiding Justice, and Hon. Geo. W. Pleasants and Hon. Joseph M. Bailey, Justices. On the 16th of March, 1877, appellees sued out of the circuit court of Cook county a writ of attachment against the estate of appellant, which was on the same day levied on certain lands as the property of appellant. The affidavit upon which the attachment was based set forth that appellant was indebted to appellees in the sum of $8264, on account of legal services, and “that he was about fraudulently to conceal, assign, or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
A reversal of the judgment of the Appellate Court is urged upon two grounds. It is claimed, in the first place, that the circuit court erred in denying appellant’s motion for a stay of proceedings in that court until the question of appellant’s discharge as a bankrupt could be determined in the District Court. Secondly, it is insisted that if appellant was not entitled to a stay of proceedings, then his motion for a new trial should have been granted, and that it was error in the circuit court to refuse it.
We will consider these positions in the inverse order in which they are made. By…
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