Brooks v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. William H. Barnum, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt on a guardian’s bond, brought by the people of the State of Illinois, for the use of Stanley B. Sexton, against Jane A. Brooks, the widow and heir at law of Joseph P. Brooks, deceased, one of the sureties on the bond.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. William H. Barnum, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt on a guardian’s bond, brought by the people of the State of Illinois, for the use of Stanley B. Sexton, against Jane A. Brooks, the widow and heir at law of Joseph P. Brooks, deceased, one of the sureties on the bond. The bond in suit was one given by Henry M. Curtis, as guardian of said Sexton, and was in tbe penal sum of $120,-000, and bore date January 3, 1873, and was signed by George E. Bissell, Henry E Seelye and said Brooks, as sureties. Sexton, at tbe date of the bond,…
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, J.
The defendant has assigned for error, among other things, the decision of the circuit court overruling a demurrer to the second replication to the defendant’s eighth plea. Said plea alleges, in substance, that Sexton attained his majority August 25, 1874, and that Curtis, his guardian, thereupon entered into a copartnership with him in the oyster and fish business, which business was afterward carried on by-said Curtis and Sexton, as copartners, until the fall of 1875; that during said copartnership, and after said Sexton had attained his majority, and with his assent, a large portion of his…
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