Cook v. Stout
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a bill in chancery, originally filed in the Circuit Court of LaSalle county, by the appellant, Isaac Cook, against the appellees, Joseph Stout, Mary E. Stout, James Cotton and Henry Gr. Cotton, praying that a sheriff’s deed to Henry G. Cotton, for certain premises, be set aside.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a bill in chancery, originally filed in the Circuit Court of LaSalle county, by the appellant, Isaac Cook, against the appellees, Joseph Stout, Mary E. Stout, James Cotton and Henry Gr. Cotton, praying that a sheriff’s deed to Henry G. Cotton, for certain premises, be set aside. The court rendered a decree setting aside such deed, and appointed a special master'to take testimony in relation to the waste committed on the premises. From this decree an appeal was prosecuted to this court, and the decree affirmed. Testimony was then taken in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This case was referred to a master, to take an account of rents and waste, and the depositions of William and Frank Collison, Robert McDonald and John Hise were taken on behalf of the complainant, and the case then adjourned to the 9th of October, when the defendant was to produce his witnesses. On that day the parties again appeared, by their solicitors, and it was found that the depositions already taken had been mislaid or accidentally destroyed. The solicitor for the defendants then stated, as there was no evidence to be controverted, he should offer none, whereupon the solicitor of…
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