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41 Ill. App. 236

Casey v. Curtis

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided July 23, 1891

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1891-07-23

<p>Practice.</p> <p>1. A refusal to quash a capias is not a final order, and can not be appealed from.</p> <p>2. Where a defendant m an action before a justice was not served with process, and knew nothing of the proceeding until after judgment, the justice had no jurisdiction to render the same, and it was of no effect.</p>

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Decided 1891-07-23

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Waterman, J.

¶1In this case, judgment against appellant was entered by confession, upon a note and warrant of attorney, more than a year and a day old.

¶2Appellant moved to set the same aside, alleging that the note was given to obtain the discharge of his property irom a claim thereon existing under an execution sale upon a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace against him (appellant), in a suit m which he was never served with process and knew nothing of until demand of payment was made under the execution.

¶3Appellant was not, as is insisted, compelled to give this note; he gave it, as his affidavit shows, in settlement of a claim upon which a judgment that was a nullity had been rendered. In ract there was against him only a claim, for if he was never served with process and knew nothing oi the proceeding until after judgment, the justice court had no jurisdiction to render the judgment and it was of no effect.

¶4The motion to set aside the judgment was properly overruled.

¶5A capias had been issued upon the judgment entered in the Superior Court, and this, appellant moved to have quashed. The court refused to quash the writ but stayed the execution thereof. Ho appeal lies from such an order.

¶6A refusal to quash a capias is not a final order. Appellant had not been arrested and he can not be under this writ, as it has long since expired by lapse of time.

¶7The judgment of the Superior Court is therefore affirmed, and the appeal from its order refusing to quash the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum and staying the execution thereof, is dismissed.

¶8Judgment affirmed and appeal from orders refusing to quash writ and staying execution, dismissed.

¶9Judgment affirmed and appeal from order dismissed.

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