Steel v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““In this case the appellant, after giving notice and filing an undertaking which entitled him to enter the cause in the circuit court, took no further steps to perfect the appeal. The respondent had no power to do what the appellant alone could do—carry forward the appeal into the circuit court. The action of the respondent in filing the transcript in the circuit court was wholly without authority of law and void. The action of the circuit court upon such filing was a nullity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. O'Connor v. Beck