Highley v. Deane
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. “In the spring of 1893 Bramhall, Deane & Co., Schlesinger & Mayer and the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company sold and delivered household goods to the Calumet Association to equip its hotel in Chicago, known as the ‘Rossmore Hotel.’ The purchaser executed to each of these firms chattel mortgages on the goods sold by each, to secure payment of the purchase price thereof. These liens, except that of Schlesinger & Mayer, were kept…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
No certificate of evidence having been incorporated in the record, this court has no means of determining whether the discretion exercised by the chancellor in decreeing that the costs of the receiver should be paid by the original complainant, whose bill was dismissed, was or was not properly exercised. The evidence upon which the decree was entered not being before this court, it must be presumed it was sufficient to justify and support every finding in the decree. Where the record is incomplete and the correctness of the decree is dependent upon facts not before this court, we can but…
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