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12 Ill. 283

Ward v. Owens

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1850

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1850-12-15

All that is necessary for an understanding of this case, is set out in the opinion of the Court. The decree was ordered by Harlan, Judge, at the October term, 1850, of the Cumberland Circuit Court.

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Decided 1850-12-15

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Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1901

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Treat, C. J.

¶1This was a bill in chancery to set aside a conveyance. The answer denied the allegations of the bill, and the cause was at issue by the filing of a replication. A decree was entered for the complainant, which the defendant assigns for error. The record fails to show, that any evidence was given to sustain the averments in the bill. The statute authorizing testimony to be introduced orally at the hearing, was only designed to change the mode of taking proof in chancery cases, and does not dispense with the necessity of incorporating it into the record. The evidence, or the facts proved by it, ought to be stated in the record. This Court will not presume that any other proof was made than what appears in the record. Such was the express decision in the ease of White v. Morrison, 11 Illinois, 361. There is then no basis on which this decree can stand. It will be reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.

¶2Decree reversed.

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