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  "name": "D. Roy Bowlby v. Thomas J. Robinson et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bowlby v. Robinson",
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      "D. Roy Bowlby v. Thomas J. Robinson et al."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Harker.\nAppellees recovered judgment in forcible detainer against appellant before a justice of the peace.- Within five days thereafter appellant filed a bond for an appeal with the clerk of the Circuit Court. The clerk issued a writ of supersedeas, and the justice transmitted to him the papers and a transcript. Ho steps were taken to have the amount of an appeal bond ascertained and fixed by the court, as required by Sec. 19, Chap. 57 of the Revised Statutes, entitled \u201c Forcible Entry and Detainer.\u201d\nIn the Circuit Court appellees moved to dismiss the appeal upon the ground that the amount of the appeal bond had not been ascertained and fixed by. the justice. Thereupon appellant entered a cross-motion for leave to file a new bond. The court overruled the cross-motion and dismissed the appeal. From that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.\nAppellant contends that he had the right to perfect his appeal by filing an appeal bond with the clerk of the Circuit Court, arid that such right is given by the first part of Sec. 18 of the Forcible Entry and Detainer Act, which reads as follows: \u201c If any party shall feel himself aggrieved by the verdict of the jury or decision of the court upon any trial had under this act, such party may have an appeal, to he taken t\u00f3 the same courts in the same manner and tried in the same way as appeals are taken and tried in other cases.\u201d In this position he would be correct, did not Sec. 19 of the same act provide that if the defendant appeals he must execute an appeal bond in sufficient amount to secure the rent and damages which may accrue to the plaintiff by reason of the withholding of the premises \u201c to be ascertained and fixed by the court.\u201d Evidently the court contemplated by the act was the one which tries the case. The clerk of the court to which the appeal is taken has no authority to ascertain and fix the bond. It is unnecessary to speculate as to the purpose and wisdom of tiie legislature in limiting the performance of that act to the official who tries the case.\nIt is sufficient for us to s\u00e1y that the legislature has so limited it in this Mnd of an action.\nAppellant failed to perfect an appeal from the judgment entered against him in the justice\u2019s court in manner as required by statute. The Circuit Court properly dismissed his appeal.\nOur view of the statute is supported by the opinion of our Supreme Court in Fairbank v. Streeter, 31 N. E. Rep. 494. The judgment will be affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Harker."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Jackson & Hurst, for appellant.",
      "Messrs. Sweeney & Walker and W. H. Gest, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "D. Roy Bowlby v. Thomas J. Robinson et al.\nForcible Entry and Detainer\u2014Secs. 18 and 19. Chap. 57, JR. S.\u2014Appeal and Error.\nThe clerk of the court to which an appeal is taken in a suit of forcible entry and detainer has no authority to ascertain and fix the appeal bond. This must be done by the trial court.\n[Opinion filed March 27, 1893.]\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island County; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. Jackson & Hurst, for appellant.\nMessrs. Sweeney & Walker and W. H. Gest, for appellees."
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