Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Hintz

Citations

• 132 Ill. 265
• 23 N.E. 1032
• 1890 Ill. LEXIS 1035

Syllabus

<p>Practice—enforcing stipulation between counsel. Agreements between counsel, made in open court, or even verbally, out of court, if acted on by them, may be enforced by the court. So where the appellant’s attorney, in consideration of an extension of time to file his brief, agreed with appellee’s attorney, that if, when the cause was reached on the call, the appellant’s brief should not have been on file ten days the-judgment should be affirmed, the court enforced the stipulation, notwithstanding appellant’s counsel, before judgment, but after the time stipulated had expired, filed a paper withdrawing his agreement, but offering no excuse for his failure to file his brief in time.</p>