Legal Opinion

Gilmore v. Bidwell

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 25, 1915No. Gen. No. 20,294PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Riohabd S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March termj 1914. Petition for certiorari dismissed by Supreme Court.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Brown

delivered the opinion of the court.

The facts set forth in the prefixed statement—facts alleged in the pleadings and admitted by the demurrer—are such that no argument, however ingenious and plausible, can conceal or controvert the truth of the proposition that what the Superior Court of Cook county was-asked to do in the case at bar was not only to overrule the intent of the judgment and orders of a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction, but even to use the action of that court—contrary to its clear purpose— as a pretext for effecting a result which the Circuit Court…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Yott v. People ex rel. GoldschmidtIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
  2. Karr v. StahlSupreme Court of Kansas · 1907
  3. McGavock v. ChamberlainIllinois Supreme Court · 1858
  4. Reno v. WoodyattAppellate Court of Illinois · 1899
  5. Rowersock v. BeersAppellate Court of Illinois · 1899

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Michigan Trust Co. v. Bank of IoniaMichigan Supreme Court · 1927

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