Guild v. Hall

This was a suit brought before a justice of the peace of Cook county, on a promissory note. Plaintiff recovered judgment before the justice, and defendants appealed to the circuit court of that county. A trial was there had, resulting in a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $205.79. A motion for a new trial was entered and plaintiff remitted $5.79, and the motion was overruled and this judgment was entered:

“ This day came the said plaintiff,, by his attorney, and remits, of the verdict of the jury aforesaid, the sum of five dollars and seventy-nine cents; and, thereupon, came on to be heard…