People v. St. Louis & Cairo Railroad

Citations

• 106 Ill. 412
• 1883 Ill. LEXIS 186

Syllabus

<p>Appeal—in suit against a railroad company for unjust discrimination—to wliat court. An action of debt, brought by the State’s attorney in the circuit court, against a railroad company, for the recovery of penalties for alleged extortion and unjust discrimination, which is dismissed by the court, not being a criminal case above the grade of a misdemeanor, and not involving á franchise, or freehold, or the validity of a statute, or construction of the constitution, and not relating to the revenue, and the State not being interested in it, as a party or otherwise, when the only question involved is the right of the State’s attorney to bring the suit, no appeal lies directly to this court. In such case the appeal should be to the Appellate Court.</p>