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  "name": "Eli Conant, Plaintiff in Error, v. Lloyd Watts, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Conant v. Watts",
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      "Eli Conant, Plaintiff in Error, v. Lloyd Watts, Defendant in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice McBride\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 170 \u2014when right to appeal exists. The authority for appeals from justices of the peace is purely statutory, and such appeals can be taken only in the manner provided by the statute.\n4. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 171 \u2014when statute confers no right of appeal from mere verdict. Hurd\u2019s Rev. St., ch. 79, sec. 115 (J. & A. \u00b6 6976), provides only for appeals from the judgments of justices of the peace, and not for appeals from the verdicts of juries in actions tried before such justices.\n5. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 106 \u2014what are requisites of judgment. Under Hurd\u2019s Rev. St., ch. 79, sec. 39 (J. & A. \u00b6 6900), providing for the rendering of judgments by justices of the peace, no formal words are required in entering such a judgment, but a judgment of some kind must be entered.\n6. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 212 \u2014when appeal should he dismissed. On appeal from a justice of the peace where it did not appear that the justice entered a judgment on the verdict of a jury in the action where an appeal was sought to be prosecuted, the denial of a motion to dismiss the appeal held erroneous.\n7. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 162 \u2014when court on appeal no jurisdiction to enter judgment. In an action tried in the County Court on appeal from a justice of the peace where it did not appear that the justice entered a judgment in the action in which the appeal was allowed, a judgment for plaintiff held erroneous, the court having in such case no jurisdiction to enter such judgment.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice McBride"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Earl C. Huggins, for plaintiff in error.",
      "No appearance for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Eli Conant, Plaintiff in Error, v. Lloyd Watts, Defendant in Error.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 162 \u2014when appeal cannot be prosecuted. No appeal can be prosecuted from the verdict of a jury before a justice of the peace until the justice has rendered judgment on such verdict as required by Hurd\u2019s Rev. St., ch. 79, sec. 39 (J. & A. \u00b6 6900).\n2. Justices of the peace, \u00a7 162 \u2014when no jurisdiction on appeal because no judgment entered. A court to which an appeal is prosecuted from the verdict of a jury before a justice of the peace acquires no jurisdiction of the cause appealed where it does not appear that the justice rendered a judgment on such verdict as required by Hurd\u2019s Rev. St., ch. 79, sec. 39 (J. & A. \u00b6 6900).\nError to the County Court of Marion county the Hon. C. E. Jennings, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded with directions.\nOpinion filed September 1, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Lloyd Watts, plaintiff, against Eli Conant, defendant, in the County Court of Marion county, to recover eight dollars claimed by plaintiff to be due him from defendant. A trial before a justice of the peace resulted in a verdict by the jury for defendant. The justice\u2019s docket did not show that he entered judgment on this verdict. On appeal to the County Court after denying a motion to dismiss the appeal, the court rendered judgment for plaintiff. To reverse a judgment for plaintiff for eight dollars, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nEarl C. Huggins, for plaintiff in error.\nNo appearance for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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