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  "id": 5287542,
  "name": "Robert Matson et al., Appellants, v. John Connelly, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Matson v. Connelly",
  "decision_date": "1860-04",
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  "first_page": "142",
  "last_page": "143",
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      "cite": "24 Ill. 142"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "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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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Robert Matson et al., Appellants, v. John Connelly, Appellee."
    ],
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      {
        "text": "Beeese, J.\nThere was no necessity for amending this verdict in the court below. The defect is cured by our statute of amendments and jeofails.\nError having been joined, the motion to dismiss the appeal comes too late. It would have prevailed if made in the first instance, as the judgment does not amount to twenty dollars, exclusive of costs, nor does it relate to a franchise or freehold.\nThe judgment is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Beeese, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "M. Williamson, for Appellants.",
      "C. C. Bonnet, for Appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Robert Matson et al., Appellants, v. John Connelly, Appellee.\nAPPEAL FROM PEORIA.\nA verdict for plaintiff in trespass, which concludes, \u201cand assess the damages at nineteen dollars,\u201d is cured by the statute of Jeofails.\nA motion to dismiss an appeal comes too late, if there is a joinder in error.\nThis cause was originally commenced before a justice of the peace, being an action of a trespass to real estate, and was taken by appeal to the County Court of Peoria county.\nThe jury found a verdict for the plaintiff below for nineteen dollars, which verdict is in the words and figures, to wit:\nJohn Connelly, \\ vs. f JohiTa. Matson*.01*\u2019 ) \u201cWe, the undersigned jurors, find for the plaintiff, and assess the damages at nineteen (19) dollars.\u201d\nWhich verdict is signed by all the jurors.\nThe defendants then entered a motion for a new trial, for the following reasons:\nBecause the verdict is contrary to law, contrary to the evidence, is informal and insufficient, and because the damage is excessive.\nThe court overruled the motion, and the defendants then moved in arrest of judgment for the following reason:\nBecause the verdict is informal: the suit being in trespass and the verdict being in assumpsit.\nThe court overruled the motion and rendered judgment, when defendants below excepted, and prayed an appeal, and assign for error, that the verdict is uncertain, informal, and void.\nM. Williamson, for Appellants.\nC. C. Bonnet, for Appellee."
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