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35 Ill. 375

Ware v. Nottinger

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1864

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1864-04-15

Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Madisox E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. The defendant in error brought an action of covenant against the plaintiff in error. To several of the special pleas filed by the defendant below, a demurrer was interposed, and on the 20th of June, 1863, the following order was entered: “ This day Messrs.

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1887

4 state decisions

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Decided 1864-04-15

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Mr. Justice Breese

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2No agreement that the court should try the issues made up in this cause, appears in the record, except the recital in the order of court, which order appears to have been made after the attorneys for the defendant had withdrawn from the case, which withdrawal took place before the court had disposed of the demurrers.

¶3There is nothing then, in the record, to show that a jury was waived. If not waived, then the defendant’s constitutional right to have a jury to try the issues was invaded. Const, art., 13, § 6. No waiver of a jury, or of submission to the court alone, appears to have been made while the defendant had an attorney in court.

¶4For this irregularity the judgment must be reversed.

¶5Judgment reversed.

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