Legal Opinion

Burnett v. Snapp

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided June 11, 1891PublishedCited by 2 opinions

In error to the Circuit Court of Will County; the Hon. Dorr an oe Diuell, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtC. B. Smith, P. J.

This was a suit begun before a justice of the peace and brought to the Circuit Court by appeal. The suit was to recover for a month’s rent for a certain house after appellant had abandoned it and moved away. Appellee had judgment below, and appellant now brings the record here on appeal. The bill of exceptions show no motion for a new trial nor any exception to the judgment. The' recital in the judgment by the clerk that a motion was made for a new trial amounts to nothing. It must be in the bill of exceptions and signed by the judge. There is, therefore, nothing for us to review. Martin v.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Martin v. FoulkeIllinois Supreme Court · 1885

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. McIntosh v. BarnesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894
  2. Continental Investment & Loan Society v. SchubnellAppellate Court of Illinois · 1896

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