Rowan v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of debt commenced by the appellees in the Gallatin Circuit Court, upon an administrator’s bond. A trial was had at December term, 1854, of the Gallatin Circuit Court, and the jury found for the appellees the sum of $4,296.25. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled. The court, thereupon, entered judgment for the amount found by the jury.
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This was an action of debt commenced by the appellees in the Gallatin Circuit Court, upon an administrator’s bond. A trial was had at December term, 1854, of the Gallatin Circuit Court, and the jury found for the appellees the sum of $4,296.25. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled. The court, thereupon, entered judgment for the amount found by the jury. At the October term, 1856, of the Gallatin Circuit Court, a credit, or remittitur was entered upon this judgment for $2,900.00. The case was transferred to the second grand division, by consent of parties.
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
At the December term, 1854, the plaintiffs below recovered a verdict in this cause for $4,269.25, ón which a judgment was rendered in proper form. At the October term, 1856, after this writ of error was sued out, the plaintiffs again appeared in the circuit court and represented to that court, that the jury, in fixing the amount of the plaintiffs’ damages, which, by their verdict they had reported to the court, had committed an error to the amount of $2,900, by which amount their verdict was too much, and asked the court to credit the judgment by that amount, which was done. This, it is now…
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