Legal Opinion
Burke v. Chicago City Ry. Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided October 9, 1903PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Transcript from Justice of the Peace.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edmund W. Burke, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
On September 25, 1901, a suit at law brought by appellant against appellee was pending in the court below, was at issue and was reached for trial. Thereupon on said day the following entry or order was made in said cause in the record of the proceedings of said court, viz.:
“ This cause being called for trial, come the parties to this suit by their attorneys, respectively, and thereupon the plaintiff elects to take a non-suit.”
bio further order or entry was made in said cause until after the end of the term and several subsequent terms, when, on July 15, 1902, the following entry or order was…
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