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  "id": 2770730,
  "name": "Andrew M. Rorke v. Augusta Goldstein",
  "name_abbreviation": "Rorke v. Goldstein",
  "decision_date": "1877-09",
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  "first_page": "568",
  "last_page": "569",
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      "cite": "86 Ill. 568"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Andrew M. Rorke v. Augusta Goldstein."
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Chief Justice Scholfield\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nSuit was commenced by Augusta Goldstein before a justice of the peace of Cook county, against Louis Hoffman and Michael Andrew Rorke, on an appeal bond. The summons was returned indorsed by the constable as \u201cserved on the within named defendant, Andrew Rorke,\u201d and \u201cnot found\u201d as to the other defendant. Judgment was thereupon rendered in favor of this plaintiff and against Andrew Rorke. Within twenty days from the date of this judgment, Andrew M. Rorke, a son of Michael Andrew Rorke, filed an appeal bond, with sufficient sureties, in his own name, for the prosecution of an appeal Upon this judgment, with the clerk of the circuit court of Cook county. A transcript of the proceedings before the justice of the peace was filed in the clerk\u2019s office and the cause docketed in the circuit court as \u201c Augusta Goldstein v. Andrew M. Rorice sued by the name of Andrew Rorke.\u201d In due time the cause came on for trial in ;he circuit court, and evidence was given on both sides, when it seems, for the first time, to have been discovered that the party appealing and defending in the circuit court was not the party sued and against whom the judgment was, rendered before the justice of the peace, whereupon, on motion of plaintiff\u2019s attorney, the appeal was dismissed. Andrew M. JRorlce appeals from that judgment of the court, and insists that it was erroneous. He argues that, inasmuch as issue was joined and evidence heard, he was entitled to have a judgment, however irregularly the case may have gotteii into the circuit court.\nIt is very clear that Andrew M. Rorlce could not prosecute an appeal upon the judgment rendered by the justice of the peace. He was no party to it, and it in nowise concerned him. Had any attempt been made to enforce the judgment against him, the party so attempting would have rendered himself liable as a trespasser. The judgment was not even against a person of the same name, but even if it had been, it could have made no difference. It would, under all circumstances, have been competent for him, in resisting any attempt to affect him by the judgment, to have shown that another, and not himself, was served with process, and was the defendant in the judgment.\nThere are many names common to a large number of individuals.\nThe absurdity is surely not contended for that, when one of these is sued, and judgment is obtained against him, all the others are parties to the judgment.\nNo one has a right to appeal from a judgment who is not in fact a party to it.\nThe circuit court might probably have taken jurisdiction of this case, as an original suit, by consent of parties, but the facts rebut this hypothesis. No original suit, either with or without process, was attempted to be brought before the. circuit court. The attempt was to appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace by a person not a party to the judgment. The issue in the circuit court, although the trial was de novo, could not have been between different parties than those to the issue before the justice of the peace.\nThe appeal was properly dismissed and the judgment below must be affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Chief Justice Scholfield"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. Andrew M. Rorke, pro se."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Andrew M. Rorke v. Augusta Goldstein.\nAppeal\u2014one not a party can not appeal. One not a party to a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, and who was not served with process issued by the justice, can not appeal from such judgment to the circuit court, oven though of the same name with the party actually sued, and if such a party appeals, his appeal will be dismissed.\nAppeal from tlie Circuit Court of Coolc County; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge, presiding.\nMr. Andrew M. Rorke, pro se."
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