Smith v. Barlow

Citations

• 67 Ill. 519

Syllabus

<p>Practice—order of trial on docket. Where a case numbered 99 on the docket, was tried, in the absence of defendant’s counsel, before cases numbered 75 and 81, which counsel had been informed would be tried by a jury, and the record failed to show what disposition had been made of the preceding cases: Held, that if they were passed without being finally disposed of for the term, it would be presumed, in the absence of any statement in the record, that the court had good and sufficient cause for what was done.</p>