Fleet v. Gilbert

Mr. Justice Gary delivered the opinion of the Court. In August, 1892, the appellant commenced, in the Superior Court, an action of replevin against the appellee. January 13, 1896, the appellant gave notice to the appellee to take the deposition of the appellant, in Mew York, upon oral interrogatories. At the time and place set, the appellee, by his attorney, attended, as did also the appellant personally, but declined to testify. April 6, 1896, the court ordered, and entered judgment, that the appellee recover from the appellant one hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty cents, and have execution therefor. This was done under Sec. 29, Ch. 51, R. S., Evidence. During the same term, the appellant moved to set aside that judgment, which motion was continued to the next term, and then denied. The appellant then appealed. The appeal bond, filed June 20, 1896, recites an appeal from the order of April 6,'1896. The judgment of the April term could not be appealed from after that term had ended, and therefore that judgment is not before us for review. Quinn Chapel v. Pease, 66 Ill. App. 552; Kortlas v. Kentucky Liquor Co., 46 Ill. App. 366; Scanlan v. Wheeler, 51 Ill. App. 179. The approval of a bond reciting such an appeal is of no effect, for an appeal can only be taken in accordance with the statute. The court can not change the terms. Gorski v. Featherstone, 55 Ill. App. 368. Treating the action of the court at the Hay term as being before us for review, upon the ground that the appeal bond is amendable, and that therefore the recital might be made to conform to the appeal prayed and allowed at the May term, there was no error in refusing to vacate a judgment of the next preceding term, entered after full opportunity to the appellant to defend, of which he availed himself to the extent that he then cared to. The order of the May term is affirmed. With the judgment of the April term we have nothing to do.