St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute R. R. v. Dorsey
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Alton City Court; the Hon. Henry S. Baker, Judge, presiding. This was an action of covenant, brought by Benjamin L. Dorsey against the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Eailroad Company. The plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant for $1900, and costs of suit.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The only errors assigned upon this record are :
1st. The verdict of the jury was contrary to the law.
2d. The court below erred in overruling the motion for a new trial and the motion in arrest of judgment.
3d. The court below erred in rendering judgment for the plaintiff.
It nowhere appears in the bill of exceptions copied in the record, that a motion for a new trial was made and overruled and excepted to in the court below. The only allusion to a motion for a new trial in the record occurs in the entry of the judgment by the clerk, in these words : “Whereupon the said defendant, by its…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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