Mensinger v. O'Hara
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. W. Pinckney, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Circuit Court sustained a general demurrer to the amended declaration of the plaintiff in this case. The plaintiff stood by his declaration and a judgment was rendered against him for costs, whereupon he sued out this writ of error.
The declaration, as amended, states that on April 5, 1909, the plaintiff was the devoted husband of Maude S. Mensinger, with whom he had lived for a long time; that on that day she died, and the plaintiff, “being under the duty and obligation to bury her, and having the right to bury her remains in…
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