Ficklin v. Olmsted
Appellate Court of Illinois
Transcript, from a justice of the peace. Error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Nathaniel C. Sears, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1897. Affirmed. Opinion filed December 16, 1897.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Adams
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The plaintiff in error appealed to the Superior Court of Cook County, from a judgment rendered against him at the suit of defendant in error by a justice of the peace April 12, 1895. The appeal was taken by filing an appeal bond in the office of the justice. A transcript of the justice’s docket and the papers in the cause were filed in the office' of the clerk of the Superior Court in 1895. April 30, 1896, the Superior Court dismissed the appeal for want of prosecution. The judgment of dismissal recites as follows:
“ This cause…
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