Coalfield Coal Co. v. Peck

Citations

• 105 Ill. 529
• 1883 Ill. LEXIS 118

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeals—effect of reversal and remandment. The only effect of a judgment of this court reversing the judgment of the Appellate Court, and remanding the case to that court without specific directions, is to render null and wholly inoperative the decision of that court, and to reinstate the case before it in the same condition it was before that court had acted on it at all.</p> <p>2. Same—as to rulings of Appellate Courts on the law and the facts. Where the Appellate Court reverses a judgment of the circuit court for a supposed error of law when the record of the trial court discloses none, the judgment of the Appellate Court will be reversed for that reason; and if the Appellate Court reverses for an error of fact, that judgment will be reversed if that court fails to certify, in its final order, the facts as found by the court. Without such finding of facts this court can not know whether its judgment was warranted by its own finding or not.</p> <p>3. The Appellate Court being the final arbiter as to the facts established by the evidence in a certain class of cases, this court is concluded by its finding of the facts, and has nothing to do with the evidence or reasons which controlled that court in arriving at its conclusions of fact, and so far as this court is concerned, it matters not whether the evidence was much or little, or sufficient or insufficient.</p>