Case ID: ill-app_207/html/0156-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Samuel Grossman, Defendant in Error, v. Abe Cohen, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 23,001.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed July 2, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action of debt on an appeal bond by Samuel Gross-man, plaintiff, against Abe' Cohen, defendant. From a judgment for plaintiff for $2,000, and $1,646 damages, the debt to be discharged upon the payment of damages, costs and interest, defendant brings error.
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Municipal Court of Chicago, § 27
      
       — what must be preserved by bill of exceptions. While, under section 38 of the Municipal Court Act (J. & A. K 3350), it is unnecessary that formal exceptions be taken, the party complaining is not relieved from the duty of preserving, by the bill of exceptions, orders of the court striking various affidavits of defense made against his objection.
    2. Appeal and error, § 1872* — what is effect of assignment of judgment on appeal bond. The assignment of the judgment which a statutory appeal bond was given to secure carries the bond with it.
    3. Appeal and error, § 1860* — what constitutes an affirmance of judgment within appeal bond. The dismissal of an appeal constitutes an affirmance of the judgment of the trial court within the provisions of an appeal bond.
    4. Damages, § 221* — when jury is unnecessary. It is not error for the court to assess damages in an action on an appeal bond, where no objection- is made thereto and no request is made to impanel a jury to assess damages before they are assessed by the court.
    5. Municipal Court of Chicago, § 13* — when affidavits of defense are properly stricken from files. Affidavits of defense, in an action in the Municipal Court of Chicago, which present no allegations of facts but mere argument, or alternative statements, are properly stricken from the files.
    E. F. Masterson, for plaintiff in error.
    Max M. Grossmah, for defendant in error.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.