Legal Opinion

Ennor v. Galena & Southern Wisconsin Railroad

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1882PublishedCited by 7 opinions

•Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county. The judgment in this case, as rendered in the circuit court, was for the sum of $5668, .which, with interest and costs, amounted to nearly $7000. On granting the appeal from the circuit court to the Appellate Court the appeal bond was required to be given in the penalty of this latter sum, and the bond was so executed.

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•Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county. The judgment in this case, as rendered in the circuit court, was for the sum of $5668, .which, with interest and costs, amounted to nearly $7000. On granting the appeal from the circuit court to the Appellate Court the appeal bond was required to be given in the penalty of this latter sum, and the bond was so executed. The judgment rendered in the circuit court, on the appeal to the Appellate Court, was affirmed. Then, upon the appeal from the Appellate Court…

1Opinion of the Court

Sheldon, J.:

This motion seems to be made on a misapprehension as to the effect of the appeal bond given on the appeal from the circuit court to the Appellate Court, standing as a security for the amount of the judgment appealed from. The adequacy of that bond, as respects the amount of the penalty in which it is given, does not seem to be called in question, or its sufficiency in any other respect. The bond given on the appeal to this court is in a sum sufficient to cover the costs in this court, and in case of an affirmance of the judgment of the Appellate Court, the bond given in the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McCall v. MossIllinois Supreme Court · 1881

3Cited by7 opinions

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  3. Price v. Philip Morris, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 2003
  4. Becker v. PeopleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1896
  5. Arthur v. DoyleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1909

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