Baird v. Powers
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by appellee, against appellant, to set aside a tax sale. The appellant answered, putting in issue the material allegations of the bill.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by appellee, against appellant, to set aside a tax sale. The appellant answered, putting in issue the material allegations of the bill. The decree is as-follows: “This cause coming on to be heard upon the bill of complaint- and supplemental bill, and the answer of defendant thereto, and the court having heard the evidence in open court and the-arguments of counsel, and being fully advised in the premises, finds that the complainant is entitled to the relief in his said bill…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
It has been held many times in this court, that where the evidence is not contained in depositions duly taken and filed in the case, and there is no report of a master in chancery, embodying the evidence taken and heard on the trial, on file in the case, it is incumbent on the party seeking to sustain the decree to preserve the evidence in the record, either by a recital in the decree of the facts proved, or by a bill of exceptions, or certificate of evidence reciting the evidence given on the hearing, filed in the case, and thus made part of the record, and that when no evidence has been…
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