Brophy v. Sheppard
Appellate Court of Illinois
Petition for writ of ne exeat. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County'; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge,* presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
There is no merit in the point made by appellant that there were missing files at the time of the hearing, and that it was therefore erroneous to render a decree. In the first place it is at least doubtful whether any error is properly assigned as to this. 'We have certainly never expressed any approval of the theory of appellant’s counsel that “errors are not supposed to be assigned upon a short record,” nor construed rule 12 to mean that when errors have been assigned on a short record, additional errors could, without special leave, he assigned on a supplemental record.
But assuming the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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