Stafford v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

There was no oral argument in this case, and it was submitted to us' for decision on the printed arguments filed in the Appellate Court, alone. From this fact we were misled, and assumed that the Appellate Court had affirmed the judgment of the circuit court, and that it was only expected that we should pass upon the errors of law insisted upon in the arguments in the Appellate Court. Accordingly, we investigated the questions arising thereon, and being of opinion that the circuit court had, in some of its rulings, erred, in that regard, against the defendant in that court, we filed an…