Legal Opinion

Rae v. Hulbert

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1856PublishedCited by 33 opinions

This is an action of debt upon a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, commenced in the Cook county Court of Common Pleas. The declaration alleges that William Hulbert and La Fayette Hulbert, plaintiffs, by their attorneys, complain of Nelson C. Rae, defendant in this suit, of a plea of debt, that he render to the said plaintiffs the sum of twelve thousand dollars, which he owes to and unjustly detains from the said plaintiffs.

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This is an action of debt upon a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, commenced in the Cook county Court of Common Pleas. The declaration alleges that William Hulbert and La Fayette Hulbert, plaintiffs, by their attorneys, complain of Nelson C. Rae, defendant in this suit, of a plea of debt, that he render to the said plaintiffs the sum of twelve thousand dollars, which he owes to and unjustly detains from the said plaintiffs. For that, whereas heretofore, to wit, on the 28th day of April, 1854, at a term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, for the county of New…

1Opinion of the Court

Catón, J.

This was an action of debt upon a judgment rendered in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The declaration is in the usual form, averring that the plaintiffs recovered a judgment on the day specified, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, against the defendant, for his debt and damages adjudged, &c., with profert. The defendant pleaded, first, nul tiel record; second, a special plea, that the judgment was obtained by fraud, and, third, a plea of set-off. The plaintiffs took issue on the first plea, and demurred to the second and third, which demurrer was sustained by…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sketoe v. EllisIllinois Supreme Court · 1852

3Cited by33 opinions

  1. O'Brien v. . YoungNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
  2. Van Matre v. SankeyIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Ambler v. WhippleIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
  4. Fisher, Brown & Co. v. FieldingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
  5. Peet & Co. v. HatcherSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895

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