Singer Manufacturing Co. v. May

In the early part of July, 1874, appellee commenced a suit before a justice of the peace of Cook county against appellant, and on a trial recovered a judgment for $35 and costs of suit. Defendant perfected an appeal to the circuit court of that county, and at the March term, 1876, the cause being regularly called and no one answering for defendant, the case was tried by a jury, when a verdict was rendered for plaintiff, for the sum of $175 and costs of suit. Durino- the term defendant entered a motion to set aside the O verdict, and for a new trial, but the court overruled the motion, and…