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  "name": "Martin Underwood, Appellee, v. C. C. Ankrum and Ida R. Ankrum, Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Underwood v. Ankrum",
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  "first_page": "365",
  "last_page": "366",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Martin Underwood, Appellee, v. C. C. Ankrum and Ida R. Ankrum, Appellants."
    ],
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "H. M. Steeley and H. M. Steeley, Jr., for appellants.",
      "Isaac A. Love, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Martin Underwood, Appellee, v. C. C. Ankrum and Ida R. Ankrum, Appellants.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. E. R E. Kimbrough, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed October 16, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction commenced before a justice of the peace by-Martin Underwood against C. C. Ankrum and Ida R. Ankrum to recover damages for the alleged wrongful closing of a public highway, thereby depriving plaintiff and his customers of access to a coal mine, whereby he sustained damages to Ms coal business. Plaintiff obtained a judgment before the justice, and on appeal, in the Circuit Court a verdict for fifty dollars was returned in his favor, on which judgment was entered, whereupon the defendants appealed.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nI. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 36 \u2014how jurisdiction of justice determined. The jurisdiction of a justice of the peace is limited to cases in which jurisdiction is given in art. XI, \u00a7 16 of the Justice\u2019s and Constable\u2019s Act. J. & A. If 6877.\n2. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 64*\u2014what action cannot be brought before justice. An action for wrongfully closing a public highway, where the only remedy is by a suit in case, and the damages sued for are neither an injury to real estate nor to personal property, is improperly brought before a justice of the peace, since such justices have no jurisdiction in actions on the case.\n3. Roads and bridges, \u00a7 200*\u2014what is nature of proceeding to recover penalty for obstructing road. A proceeding in the name of a town to recover a statutory penalty for obstructing a highway is in the nature of a criminal action.\nH. M. Steeley and H. M. Steeley, Jr., for appellants.\nIsaac A. Love, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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