Kessel v. O'Sullivan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Transcript from, a Justice of the Peace.—Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Presiding Justice Gary
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The abstract shows that there are in this record thirty-eight pages of testimony of witnesses, and none of it is abstracted.
Doubtless the counsel intended that this course should be understood as conceding that this court would not reverse the case upon its merits. But it has a greater effect than that. It is familiar law that a just—unquestionably just— judgment will generally not be reversed for errors in the process by which it was reached. Atchison, etc., R. R. v. Elder, 50 Ill. App. 276. And the reason of the rule extends to a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Long v. LinnIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
- Morgan v. CampbellAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894
- Atchison, T. & S. F. R. R. Co. v. ElderAppellate Court of Illinois · 1893
- Harrigan v. TurnerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894
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