{
  "id": 5200351,
  "name": "Martha Berry v. The People ex rel.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Berry v. People",
  "decision_date": "1897-01-21",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "422",
  "last_page": "423",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "68 Ill. App. 422"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:19:54.666299+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Martha Berry v. The People ex rel."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Gary\ndelivered the opinion oe the Court.\nJuly 2, 1896, Sage filed a bill against the appellant for a specific performance of an agreement for a lease for a term of two years from April 20, 1896, at a rent of fifty dollars per year, and obtained an injunction to restrain her from interfering with his possession, etc. Very shortly, under the direction of her husband, the house was torn down, and\u2014so far as appears before us\u2014with no participation in, or knowledge or ratification of, the act by her.\nNevertheless she has been fined $50 for contempt of court in committing a breach of the injunction. If we have the whole case, she is wronged. There is no appearance by the appellee, and we reverse the order imposing the fine.\nThe costs here are adjudged against the relator, at whose instance the order was made.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Gary"
      },
      {
        "text": "Waterman, J.,\ndissents.",
        "type": "dissent",
        "author": "Waterman, J.,"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "0. A. Surine, attorney for appellant.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Martha Berry v. The People ex rel.\n1. Contempt of Court\u2014Record Must Sustain the Conviction.\u2014 When the record does not sustain the conviction, it must be reversed.\nContempt Proceedings.\u2014Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodore Bkextano, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1896.\nReversed.\nWaterman,-J.,.dissenting.\nOpinion filed January 21, 1897.\n0. A. Surine, attorney for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0422-01",
  "first_page_order": 420,
  "last_page_order": 421
}