Halliday v. Shugart

Citations

• 56 Ill. 44

Syllabus

<p>Appeal—from a justice of the peace — when it will lie. After a trial in a suit before a justice of the peace, in which the jury failed to agree, the plaintiff dismissed his suit, and the justice thereupon taxed a part of the costs against the defendant: Held, the defendant had a right to appeal from the order of the justice as to costs, not perhaps for the purpose of having the costs re-taxed on the transcript of the justice, but for tbe purpose of a new trial, and after the trial to have the costs taxed by the court.</p>