Case Name: Charles H. Maguire v. John L. Woods et al.
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1889-12-02
Citations: 33 Ill. App. 638
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles H. Maguire v. John L. Woods et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 33
Pages: 638–639

Head Matter:
Charles H. Maguire v. John L. Woods et al.
Practice—Creditor's Bill—Demurrer.
An order sustaining a demurrer, not being a final decree, is not appeal-able.
[Opinion filed December 2, 1889.]
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding.
Messrs. Keator & Thompson, for appellant.
Messrs. Jonas Hutchinson and Byron Boyden, for appellee.

Opinion:
Gary, P. J.
The appellant filed a creditor's bill under section 49 of the chancery act, making the village of Hyde Park one of the defendants, to reach the salary of Woods, as one of the village trustees. The village demurred, the court sustained the demurrer, and there the record of the action of the court upon the cause stops.
What this court would have to say upon the merits, if the case was properly here, may be plausibly conjectured by reading the case of Merwin v. Chicago, 45 Ill. 133; but the order sustaining the demurrer is not a final decree, and therefore not appealable. Knapp v. Marshall, 26 Ill. 63.
The appeal is dismissed.
Appeal dismissed.