Thom v. Hess
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Assumpsit. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. James Goggin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at. the October term, 1893, and affirmed in part.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Gary
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This action is for the value of a trunk and contents, lost from the wagon of the appellant, as the appellee was about to depart on a journey the day after her wedding.
The case was tried on a short cause calendar, and one of the errors assigned is that the court kept on with the trial, against repeated objections by the appellant, after more than an hour had been taken. If the discretion of the court as to stopping the trial is to be controlled in any case, it would not be where it appeared that the defense had been unduly protracted.
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