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41 Ill. 349

Boynton v. Robb

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1866

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1866-04-15

T. D. Murphy, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt brought in the court below by Albert G. Robb, John H. Ball and William Phelps, for the use of George L. Wood, against Hiram E. Whitney, Charles 0. Boynton and George Walrod.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1886

2 state decisions

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Decided 1866-04-15

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Mr. Justice Breese

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2The only error we are enabled to discover in this record is this: The judgment described in the declaration is a judgment for the sum of two hundred and fifty-nine T7/„ dollars, recovered by Robb against Whitney. The record offered in evidence shows a judgment in favor of Robb against Whitney for the sum of two hundred and forty-nine X7/F dollars. Though it may be said this was but inducement to the execution of the bond, yet the rule is that every allegation in an inducement which is material, and not impertinent and foreign to the cause, and which cannot be rejected as surplusage, must be proved as alleged. 1 Chitty PI. 295. The recital of this judgment was both pertinent and germane to the cause, and could not be rejected as surplusage. Being so, it should have been truly stated, and, not having been so stated and proved, the plea of nul tiel record being pleaded, the variance is fatal, and the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.

¶3Judgment reversed.

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