Schmitt v. Devine ex rel. United States Heater Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Attachment and Garnishee Process.—Error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. James Goggin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at March term, 1896.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Gary
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Attorneys should remember that this court has, when it takes up one of their cases for consideration, no previous knowledge of what the case is about, and is to derive its knowledge of the case itself from the abstract, and that only.
The abstract -in this case does show that interrogatories for garnishees, of whom the plaintiff in error was one, to answer, were addressed, so far as relates to him, with wrong initials for his given names; but as he was served both on the original attachment and the scire facias, in which were his…
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