Emmons v. Bishop
Illinois Supreme Court
The motion for a new trial in this cause was denied by O. C. Skinner, Judge, at November term, 1851, of the Adams Circuit Court.
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The motion for a new trial in this cause was denied by O. C. Skinner, Judge, at November term, 1851, of the Adams Circuit Court. The bill of exceptions taken by the plaintiff' in error, shows that on the 30th day of September, a. d. 1851, he filed his petition in the Adams Circuit Court, setting forth that on the 17th day of October, a. d. 1850, judgment was rendered in said court against him in favor of Otho Bishop, in ah action of ejectment then pending in said court, wherein he was plaintiff, and said Bishop was defendant, and that all the costs in the cause, together with the damages…
1Opinion of the Court
Treat C. J.
Emmons brought an action of ejectment against Bishop. It was submitted to the court for trial, on the 17th of October, 1850. On the same day the court found the issue against the plaintiff, and rendered judgment in favor of the defendant. The last day of that term of the court was the 30th of October, 1850. A term of the same court was held in June, 1851. On the 30th of September, 1851, the plaintiff paid all the costs that had accrued in the case, and filed with the clerk a petition to the court for a new trial under the statute. The next term of the court commenced on the 21st of…
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