Case ID: ill-app_206/html/0538-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Childers & Lillienstein, Appellee, v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, Appellant.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Appeal and error, $ 804
      
      —What evidence not considered. Evidence not preserved in the bill of exceptions may not be considered by the Appellate Court.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Cbeighton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Reversed with a finding of fact.
    Opinion filed July 14, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Childers & Lillienstein, a corporation, plaintiff, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, defendant, to recover for the loss of a mule which was sick when it arrived at the destination and died three days later. From a judgment for plaintiff for $120, defendant appeals.
    This is one of a series of cases arising out of the same accident as in No. 6,646, ante, p. 535.
    Graham & Graham, for appellant; John G. Drennan, of counsel.
    Smith & Friedmeyer, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court.