{
  "id": 2551436,
  "name": "Union Casualty and Surety Company v. Morris Hickey",
  "name_abbreviation": "Union Casualty & Surety Co. v. Hickey",
  "decision_date": "1903-07-01",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "363",
  "last_page": "364",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "112 Ill. App. 363"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:42:28.128679+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Union Casualty and Surety Company v. Morris Hickey."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nIn this case appellee has filed no brief. Rule. 29 of this court is as follows: \u201c If the defendant in error or appellee shall fail to file his brief in compliance with these rules, the judgment or decree will be reversed proforma, unless the court, on examination of the record, shall deem it proper to decide the case on its merits.\u201d\nWe have examined the record and do not deem it proper to depart from the usual course in such cases.\nThe judgment of the City Court of East St. Louis is reversed.\nReversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Kramer, Creighton & Shaeffer, for appellant; Percy Werner, of counsel.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Reporters\u2019 Note. The opinions ensuing were not submitted to us by the clerk of the Appellate Court of the Fourth District, until he supplied us with the opinions filed during March, 1904. His reason for withholding them was that all but one were pending upon rehearing, and the remaining one was unimportant.\nJones & Addington.\nUnion Casualty and Surety Company v. Morris Hickey.\n1. Brief\u2014effect of appellee\u2019s failure to file. No sufficient reason appearing to the co.urt why this case should be decided upon its merits, the same is, pursuant to its 29th rule, reversed because of the appellee\u2019s failure to file a brief.\nAction commenced before justice of the peace. Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. Silas Cook, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1903.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed July 1, 1903.\nKramer, Creighton & Shaeffer, for appellant; Percy Werner, of counsel.\nNo appearance for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0363-01",
  "first_page_order": 381,
  "last_page_order": 382
}