People ex rel. Gobin v. May

This was a suit brought in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, for the use of Edward Gobin, a minor, who sues by Elizabeth Gobin, his next friend, upon the official bond of Thomas May, Jr., as clerk of the Circuit- Court of St. Clair county.

The declaration charged that said Edward Gobin, a minor, suing by his next friend, recovered judgment against the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated Eailroad Co., for $3,000 in the Circuit Court of St.' Clair county on April 24, 1893; that from this judgment the railroad company appealed to the Appellate Court for the fourth dis-.…