Legal Opinion

Symms v. Jamieson

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided July 12, 1904No. Gen. No. 11,247PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Writ of error to review allowance of master’s fees. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. J ustice Stein

delivered the opinion of the court.

This writ of error brings before the court the same record as in the case of Symms v. City of Chicago, post p. 169. The writ was sued out on the theory that the application by a master for an allowance of fees and the allowance thereof was a collateral and independent proceeding in which the master was the moving party and should be defendant to the writ of error, and that the order allowing his fees was final and subject to review on appeal or writ of error.

The writ was improvidentlv sued out and cannot be maintained. Officers of the court…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gagnon v. BurtonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Strook v. JamiesonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1908

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