Williams v. Gottschalk
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John W. Houston, Judge, presiding. Franklin B. Gottschalk, plaintiff in' error, has sued out a writ of error from this court, which has been made a supersedeas, seeking to reverse a judgment for $25 and costs rendered against him by the municipal court of Chicago for the first district in favor of Lewis A. Williams and Henry Schnoering, partners doing business as the University Publishing Society, defendants in error.
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Writ oe Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John W. Houston, Judge, presiding. Franklin B. Gottschalk, plaintiff in' error, has sued out a writ of error from this court, which has been made a supersedeas, seeking to reverse a judgment for $25 and costs rendered against him by the municipal court of Chicago for the first district in favor of Lewis A. Williams and Henry Schnoering, partners doing business as the University Publishing Society, defendants in error. The suit was originally brought before James C. Martin, a justice of the peace of the city of Chicago, on a contract of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The plaintiff in error questioned the jurisdiction of the municipal court, claiming that the justice of the peace, on November 30, 1906, continued the cause until December 14, 1906, not for the purpose of talcing evidence, and that thereby, jurisdiction of the case was lost. The cause was not continued to December 14. The justice continued the cause “to the municipal court of Chicago,” and made an order setting the. hearing for December 14, 1906. The jurisdiction of the justice by virtue of the provisions of the Municipal Court act ceased, for all purposes, with the expiration of the day…
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