Vail v. Arkell
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. One Annie M. Miller filed in the Circuit Court her bill for an injunction restraining William J. Arkell and Lucy W. Drexel from interfering with her possession of certain premises, she claiming an interest therein by virtue of an alleged lease by Joseph W. Drexel, to her, of certain premises described as block five (5), etc., in certain, subdivisions of the north half (-£) of Sec.…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. One Annie M. Miller filed in the Circuit Court her bill for an injunction restraining William J. Arkell and Lucy W. Drexel from interfering with her possession of certain premises, she claiming an interest therein by virtue of an alleged lease by Joseph W. Drexel, to her, of certain premises described as block five (5), etc., in certain, subdivisions of the north half (-£) of Sec. nineteen (19), township thirty-eight (38), range fourteen (14). Ellen P. Vail was made a party defendant, the only allegation…
1Opinion of the CourtWaterman, P. J.
A cross-bill is defined by Story in his work on Equity Pleadings, Sec. 389, to be “ a bill brought by ■a defendant in the suit against the plaintiff in the same suit, or against other defendants in the same suit, or against both, touching the matter in question in the original bill.”
It is quite manifest that the cross-bill of Ellen P. Vail is not touching the matters in question in the original hill of Annie M. Miller; that bill is based entirely upon the charge that she, Annie Miller, has a lease, with rent paid up for twenty years, to certain premises; and is therefore entitled to he…
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