Case ID: ill-app_182/html/0388-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Eli S. Hart, Appellee, v. John C. Schultz et al., on appeal of John C. Schultz, Appellant. Eli S. Hart, Appellee, v. John C. Schultz et al., on appeal of Carrie P. Schultz, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 18,415.
    Gen. No. 18,416.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Appeai and ebrob, § 1093
      
      —what brief should contain. Briefs consisting of printed arguments on the facts of a case into which are injected the views of counsel upon the proposition that a construction placed upon a contract by a master and chancellor is erroneous, the position of counsel not being supported by citation of reported decisions do not comply with Appellate Court rule 21.
    2. Costs, § 8*—when to be taxed against defendant. Where litigation was due to the failure of a real estate broker to make an accounting of certain transactions and where it appeared that such broker concealed portions of the transactions and deceived the plaintiff, held that all the costs of a suit for an accounting and other relief were to be taxed against such broker.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1912.
    Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
    Opinion filed October 14, 1913.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Eli S. Hart against John C. and Carrie P. Schultz for an accounting and other relief. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
    Robert F. Kolb and Robert W. Dunn, for appellant.
    Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Yols. XI tp XIV, samp topic and spctipn number.
    
   Mr. Justice Clark

delivered the opinion of the court.