Legal Opinion

Higinbotham v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided September 26, 1898Published

Voluntary Assignments.—Petition to set aside an order discontinuing proceedings. Entered by the County Court of Lake County; the Hon. DeWitt L. Jones, Judge, presiding. Hearing and petition denied. Appeal by petitioners.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wright

Appellant and others filed in the County Court, November 6, 1897, their petition to set aside the order of the court previously entered, December 1, 1896, discontinuing the assignment proceedings commenced in that court October 13, 1896, by the assignment of Isaac Goldberg as insolvent, to the appellee as assignee. The court denied the prayer of the petition, from which order appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The section of the statute conferring authority to make orders like the one of which complaint is here made is as follows:

“ Sec. 15. All proceedings under the act of which this (section)…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cassem v. BrownAppellate Court of Illinois · 1898

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