Brockenbrough v. Dresser

Citations

• 67 Ill. 225

Syllabus

<p>Chancery—evidence—how preserved. Where copies of judgments and executions affecting title to land in dispute are copied into the record of a chancery case, which are not exhibits filed with the bill, or any of the depositions, and there is in the record no certificate of evidence by the court, nor any statement of the facts proven in the decree, this court can not notice the same. The clerk’s certificate, that the record contains a “correct copy of all the papers on file, all of the orders of court and records used in evidence,” in such a case is of no avail.</p>