Sheridan v. Beardsley

Defendants in error recovered a judgment against plaintiff in error before a justice of the peace of Cook county, from which judgment plaintiff in error appealed to the circuit court of said county. The appeal was taken under the provisions of sec. 65, of ch. 79, Rev. Stat. 1874, by filing an appeal bond in the office of the clerk of the circuit court. The cause appears to have been placed by the clerk on the calendar for trial; and on the 27th day of April, 1877, it was reached for trial on the call of the calendar, and, neither plaintiff in error nor his attorney being present, said appeal…