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41 Ill. App. 417

Ward v. Stanley

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided November 2, 1891

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1891-11-02

Richard Prendergast, Judge, presiding. Defendants in error brought suit in assumpsit against Margaret A. Ward, and Dennis Ward, the declaration filed containing the common counts only. The defendants entered their appearance and filed a plea of the general issue, and with it an affidavit by Dennis Ward that he had a good defense upon the merits to the whole of the plaintiff’s demand.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1895

2 state decisions

Relies on Faulk v. Kellums · Felsenthal v. Durand · Davidson v. Bond

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1891-11-02

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Waterman, P. J.

¶1The rule is that in actions on contracts, recovery and judgments must be against all or none who are served with process or have appeared. Waugh v. Suter et al., 3 Ill. App. 271; Dow v. Rattle, 12 Ill. 373; Davidson v. Bond, 12 Ill. 84; Faulk v. Kellums, 54 Ill. 188; Kimball et al. v. Tanner, 63 Ill. 519; Felsenthal v. Durand, 86 Ill. 230.

¶2Judgment should not have been entered against Margaret Ward without some disposition of the case as to Dennis Ward. It was error to enterjudgment against Margaret Ward and leave the case pending as to Dennis Ward until the ensuing term. The dismissal as to him came too late to cure the defect in the judgment against her. The judgment record was full and complete when judgment was entered against her and could not be changed at a subsequent term.

¶3We are compelled to call attention to the defective way in which the abstract in this case is made up. A mere index of the record is not an abstract. Such portions of the record as counsel wish to call attention to should be so abstracted as to show the matter which the court is asked to consider.

¶4For the error indicated the judgment of the County Court is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶5Reversed and remanded.

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