Legal Opinion

Gordon ex rel. Security Insurance v. Current

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided November 4, 1931No. Gen. No. 8,504PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shurtlefe

This suit was instituted by appellee for the use of the ^Security Insurance Company, a corporation, before" a police magistrate of Vermilion county, to recover damages for the injury to an automobile, charged to have been caused by the negligence of appellant, in a collision. There was a judgment for appellee in the magistrate’s court and, upon appeal, a verdict and judgment for appellee in the sum of $360.80, in the county court of Vermilion county, from which this appeal is taken.

Appellant to reverse the judgment insists that a police magistrate had no jurisdiction to try a cause for injury…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Illinois Central Railroad v. ReedyIllinois Supreme Court · 1856
  2. Skinner v. MorganAppellate Court of Illinois · 1886
  3. Oberman v. Camden Fire InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1924
  4. Northrup v. SmothersAppellate Court of Illinois · 1891
  5. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. McNuttAppellate Court of Illinois · 1907

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Stivers v. Black & Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1942
  2. Wallis v. VillantiAppellate Court of Illinois · 1954
  3. Fitzgerald Furniture Co. v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1933
  4. Lachenmyer v. GlotfeltyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1936

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