Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad v. Beals
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action commenced before justice of the peace. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby county; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ramsay
Appellee brought suit against appellant before a justice of the peace in Shelby county to recover damages resulting to appellee' from three separate fires upon his premises alleged to have been set by locomotives passing upon appellant’s line of road. Appellee recovered a judgment before the justice of the peace and appellant appealed to the Circuit Court of said county, where, upon a trial before a jury, a verdict was returned in appellee’s favor in the sum of $63,60, upon which the court rendered judgment. The company brings the case to this court by appeal.
Appellant has made several…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Frew v. Illinois Central RailroadAppellate Court of Illinois · 1895
- Miller v. GableAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889
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