Woods v. Dial
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an appeal from a justice of the peace to the.Circuit Court of Jefferson County. - The fact’s of the cáse are fully set out in the opinion of the Court. The -cause was heard before Denning, Judge, and a jury •at the August Term, 1850, of the Circuit Court, and resulted in a verdict for the- plaintiff, and a judgment for $40 and ’ costs. A motion for a new trial was overruled.
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This was an appeal from a justice of the peace to the.Circuit Court of Jefferson County. - The fact’s of the cáse are fully set out in the opinion of the Court. The -cause was heard before Denning, Judge, and a jury •at the August Term, 1850, of the Circuit Court, and resulted in a verdict for the- plaintiff, and a judgment for $40 and ’ costs. A motion for a new trial was overruled. A . bill of'exceptions was-taken, and the defendant below, brought the’ case’to this Court by writ of error. ' ■- ":
1Opinion of the CourtTrumbull, J.
This record shows, that Woods agreed with Dial to give him forty dollars in trade, for his iinproveiiient on Congress land—Dial to keep possession of the place for one year— that he left the premises in the spring, and brought suit for the forty dollars for which he had judgment. ■
The agreement was by parol,, and the. evidence of its.terms, as shown by the record, is exceedingly meagre. Neither the kind of trade, the time or place for its delivery, the residence of the parties, except that one of them resided on .Congress land,- .nor the business, that either followed, appears in the case.…
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