Durand & Co. v. Gray, Kingman & Collins
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Gwynn Gabnett, Judge, presiding. H. W. Allen was for some time engaged in a general grocery business in Belvidere, Boone county, where he resided.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Gwynn Gabnett, Judge, presiding. H. W. Allen was for some time engaged in a general grocery business in Belvidere, Boone county, where he resided. He had become indebted to various parties, among others to Du-rand & Co. in the sum of $2117; to Levi Mason, an uncle of his, in the sum of $1400; to Gray, Kingman & Collins in the sum of $439.52; to E. B. Millar & Co. in the sum of $56.80. On the 19th of January, 1887, Allen informed one Neis Allen, a traveler for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
So much of section 49 of our Chancery Code (Rev. Stat. 1874, p. 203, et seq.,) as provides that “whenever an execution shall have been issued against the property of a defendant, on a judgment at law, * * * and an execution shall have been returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part, the party suing out such execution may file a bill in chancery against such defendant, and any other person, to compel the discovery of any property or thing in action belonging to the defendant,” etc., introduces no new principle, and is but affirmative of the common law. (Bispham’s Eq. 2d ed. secs. 525, 526, et…
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