Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Fort Dearborn National Bank
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 7, 1893PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Francis Adams, Judge, presiding."
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
The Joliet & Chicago Stone Company obtained a judgment against Hughes before a justice of the peace, on which an execution was issued and returned “ no property found.” Thereupon the stone company commenced garnishment proceedings upon that judgment in the Circuit Court.
The only question in the case is whether garnishment proceedings will lie in the Circuit Court upon a judgment of a justice of the peace. As such proceedings are purely statutory the answer depends upon what is the antecedent of the word 66 such ” in the several places where it occurs in the first section of the Garnishment…
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