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        "text": "Mr. Justice Burroughs\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThe appellee sued the appellant before a justice of the peace to recover damages for injuring his cattle and recovered a judgment for $187 and costs. From this judgment appellant appealed to the Circuit Court of Yermilion County, and on a trial by jury in that court the appellee recovered a verdict for $189.50 damages, and $30 attorney\u2019s fees, upon which the court rendered a judgment for $219.50, from which the appellant prosecutes this appeal.\nThe appellant urges as grounds of reversal, (1) that the verdict is contrary to the evidence; .(2) that the court gave, at the instance of the appellee, instructions numbered one and four, both of which are improper; and (3) that the amount of the judgment (\u00a7219.50) is in excess of the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, on appeal from the justice of the peace.\nUpon the evidence the right of the appellee to recover is made to depend upon whether or not the cattle injured, when struck by the engine of appellant\u2019s train, were upon the public road crossing, or on the right of way of the appellant, beyond the cattle-guard. If the latter, the appellee\u2019s right to recover is conceded; if the former, his right to recover is denied.\nThe theory of the appellee is that the appellant\u2019s cattle-guard was insufficient to turn cattle, on account of which his cattle went over the same and upon appellant\u2019s right of way and were there struck by the train of the appellant and injured. The evidence showed the cattle-guard was insufficient to turn ordinary cattle, and that the appellee\u2019s cattle were struck by a freight train of the appellant and damaged to an amount equal to the verdict; it also tended strongly to show that the cattle had gone onto the right of way over this insufficient cattle-guard and were there when struck, notwithstanding the engineer and fireman in charge of the engine that struck the cattle were quite positive the cattle were on the public road crossing when they were struck. We are satisfied from a careful consideration of all the evidence, the jury were justified in finding the cattle injured were, when struck, over the cattle-guard onto the right of way, as they were found, after they were struck, lying, the' nearest one sixty and the farthest about 180 feet, on the right of way beyond the cattle-guard; their tracks, and all the indications upon the ground on the road crossing, the fence and cattle-guard, tending strongly to corroborate the theory of the appellee and to contradict the testimony of appellant\u2019s engineer and fireman, as to the place where the cattle were when struck.\nThe two instructions complained of by the appellant were open to some of the objections urged against them; but we do not believe that the appellant was prejudiced thereby since the instructions given at the instance of the appellant clearly and fully cured all of the evils contained in these two instructions; and, besides, the verdict was fully justified from all the evidence.\nBefore this case was submitted, this court, upon the uncontested motion of the appellee, allowed a remittitur of $20 from the judgment of the Circuit Court in this case, which will leave it for only $199.50, an amount within the Circuit Court\u2019s jurisdiction on appeal from the justice. That it was the proper practice to allow such remittitur in this court, is expressly decided in C., M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. Walsh, 57 Ill. App. 448, affirmed in 157 Ill. 672; and in Elgin City Ry. Co. v. Salisbury, 60 Ill. App. 173, affirmed in 162 Ill. 187.\nAs we find no error in this case that warrants us in reversing the judgment appealed from since the entry of the remittitur, we affirm the judgment of the Circuit Court for $199.50, the amount to which it has been reduced.\nJudgment affirmed for $199.50.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Geo. B. Burnett, attorney for appellant.",
      "J. W. Keeslab, attorney for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Wabash Railroad Co. v. Amos Barker.\nI. Practice\u2014Remittitur in Appeals from Justices.\u2014Where a party on an appeal from a justice of the peace receives a verdict for an amount in excess of the justice\u2019s jurisdiction, he may remit the excess and have judgment for the remainder.\nTrespass to Personal Property.\u2014Trial in the Circuit Court of Macon County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Appeal by defendant.\nHeard in this court at the May term, 1898.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 5, 1898.\nGeo. B. Burnett, attorney for appellant.\nJ. W. Keeslab, attorney for appellee."
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