Annis v. Bonar
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was a creditor’s bill filed by Mary E. Bonar against Andrew and Ellison Annis to subject certain real estate to the payment of a judgment she had before that time recovered against her father, Ellison Annis, in the circuit court of Henry county. The judgment was for $1,370.90 and costs. The bill recites the issue of execution and its return nulla bona.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was a creditor’s bill filed by Mary E. Bonar against Andrew and Ellison Annis to subject certain real estate to the payment of a judgment she had before that time recovered against her father, Ellison Annis, in the circuit court of Henry county. The judgment was for $1,370.90 and costs. The bill recites the issue of execution and its return nulla bona. The court below decreed the relief prayed, and Andrew Annis prosecuted this appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scholfield
Mary E. Bonar exhibited her bill in equity in the court below, against Ellison Annis and Andrew Annis, to subject certain property of which Andrew claimed to be owner to the payment of a judgment which she had obtained against Ellison, on the ground that the property had been conveyed by Ellison to Andrew in fraud of her rights as a creditor.
The facts admitted in the answer of Andrew very clearly show that if complainant was, as she claims, a creditor of Ellison at the time the property was conveyed to Andrew, she is entitled to the relief sought by her bill, and the decree of the court below…
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