Hodges Fiber Carpet Co. v. Hugro Manufacturing Co., 203 Ill. App. 404 (1917)

Feb. 9, 1917 · Illinois Appellate Court · Gen. No. 21,109
203 Ill. App. 404
Hodges Fiber Carpet Company, Defendant in Error, v. Hugro Manufacturing Company, Plaintiff in Error

Hodges Fiber Carpet Company, Defendant in Error, v. Hugro Manufacturing Company, Plaintiff in Error.

Gen. No. 21,109.

(Not to he reported in full.)

Error to the Municipal Court of .Chicago; the Hon. Edward T. Wade, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.

Affirmed.

Opinion filed February 9, 1917.

Statement of the Case.

Action by Hodges Fiber Carpet Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against the Hugro Manufacturing Company, a corporation, defendant. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.

William D. Johnson, for plaintiff in error.

Herman S. Waldman, for defendant in error; Morris K. Levinson, of counsel.

Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

*405Abstract of the Decision.

1. Depositions, § 34 * —when will not be suppressed because of defect in notary’s certificate. The failure of a notary’s certificate to depositions taken before him subsequent to the time set for taking same to show an adjournment is a mere irregularity which is not sufficient to warrant suppression of the depositions in the absence of evidence tending to show injury or surprise of one of the parties thereby.

2. Depositions, § 35 * -—when motion to suppress is too late. Where depositions were returned promptly and notice of their taking given to the opposite party’s attorney six months prior to trial, held that it was his duty to ascertain whether such depositions had been returned and to present a motion to suppress them before the case was called for trial, and it was then too late.