{
  "id": 5788801,
  "name": "Greenwald Furniture Company v. American Lamp and Brass Company",
  "name_abbreviation": "Greenwald Furniture Co. v. American Lamp & Brass Co.",
  "decision_date": "1898-10-21",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "492",
  "last_page": "493",
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      "cite": "78 Ill. App. 492"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Greenwald Furniture Company v. American Lamp and Brass Company."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Horton\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis cause was commenced before a justice of the peace, where judgment was entered for $194.85 against appellant, who then took the case to the Superior Court by appeal. It is stated by counsel that the cause was twice stricken from the short cause calendar, but not without prejudice. It was placed upon a calendar, and when called for trial appellee moved to strike it from such calendar for the reason that it had twice before been stricken from a short cause calendar, but not \u201c without prejudice.\u201d The court overruled that motion, and counsel for appellant states that the court \u201c permitted the orders striking the cause from the short cause calendar to be amended by adding the words \u2018 without prejudice.\u2019 \u201d\nAppellant and its counsel were present in court at the time of the trial but took no part therein. Verdict and judgment against appellant for same amount as before the justice of the peace, viz., $194.85. The testimony is not preserved in the record.\nThere is no claim or pretense by appellant, appearing either in the record or in the brief of its attorney, that it has any meritorious defense whatever to appellee\u2019s claim or any part of it. The cause will not then be reversed unless some prejudicial error in the court below absolutely requires that that be done.\nIt is urged that the court erred in refusing to strike the cause from the short cause calendar when it was reached for trial. The record does not show at whose instance the case was stricken from the trial calendar. So far as this court is advised by the record it may have been done at the instance of the appellant. If so, it could not complain as to that.\nThe only other point presented is that the court erred in allowing orders striking the cause from the short cause calendar to be amended by adding the words \u201cwithout prejudice.\u201d A sufficient answer to this is found in the fact that the record shows no such order. The only reference to any such order is in a certificate of evidence. Indeed, the record does not show that this cause was ever upon the short cause calendar, other than when it was called for trial and tried, except as appears in the certificate of evidence, and then mostly in the recitation of appellant\u2019s motion.\nPerceiving no prejudicial error in the record in this case, the judgment of the Superior Court is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Horton"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "B. M. Shaffner, attorney for appellant.",
      "Joseph O. Morris, attorney for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Greenwald Furniture Company v. American Lamp and Brass Company.\n1. Appellate Court Practice\u2014Record Must Show the Errors Relied On.\u2014Parties bringing oases to this court must see that the record shows the errors relied upon are truly assigned.\nAssumpsit.\u2014Trial in the Superior Court of Co.ok County, on appeal from a justice of the peace; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Appeal by defendant.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1898.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 21, 1898.\nB. M. Shaffner, attorney for appellant.\nJoseph O. Morris, attorney for appellee."
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  "file_name": "0492-01",
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  "last_page_order": 503
}