Court Opinion

ID: 6997422
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 03:35:56.808199+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:09:49.233379
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Mr. Justice Gary delivered ti-ie opinion of the Court. The Circuit Court dismissed the appeal of the plaintiffs in error to that court from the judgment of the Probate Court “ for want of a proper bond * * * filed in the Probate Court.” The brief of the plaintiff in error alleges that such a bond was duly filed in the Probate Court, “ but was not approved oby the judge of said court, owing to his absence from the city on vacation.” The prayer in the Probate Court for an appeal was on the 5th day of August, 1891, and was granted upon “ presenting to this court within twenty days from this date their appeal bond, * * * to be approved by this court.” A part of the record from the Probate Court to the Circuit Court was a bond dated August 20, 1896, with nothing to show when it was filed—if ever—and with no approval by the court shown in any way. Whether the Circuit Court erred is not a question before us. There is no bill of exceptions in the case—only a transcript by the clerk of the Circuit Court of the record from the Probate Court, and of the motion by the defendant in error in the Circuit Court, and the order of that court on that motion. Neely v. Wright, 72 Ill. 292. If the plaintiff in error were denied the privilege of filing a new bond, a bill of exceptions is the only way to show it. The statute does not require the order of dismissal to be nisi. We can not take the history of the case from a brief, instead of a bill. The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.