City of Chicago v. Simonetti, 203 Ill. App. 279 (1917)

Jan. 22, 1917 · Illinois Appellate Court · Gen. No. 22,600

203 Ill. App. 279

City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Emma Simonetti, Plaintiff in Error.

Gen. No. 22,600.

(Not to he reported in full.)

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.

Affirmed.

Opinion filed January 22, 1917.

Statement of the Case.

Prosecution by the City of Chicago, plaintiff, against Emma Simonetti, defendant, for keeping and maintaining a disorderly house in violation of an ordinance of the City of Chicago. From a judgment upon a verdict of guilty and fine of one hundred dollars, defendant brings error.

William L. Martin, for plaintiff in error.

Samuel A. Ettelson and Harry B. Miller, for defendant in error; Daniel Webster, of counsel.

* See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

Abstract of the Decision.

1. Municipal Court of Chicago, § 27 ^* —how action of trial court in refusing change of venue should he preserved for review. Under section 23 of the Municipal Court Act (J. & A. U 3335), in order to secure a review of the trial court’s action in refusing a change of venue, the plaintiff in error should make a correct statement of such action, as required by the statute, and not present it by a bill of exceptions, for which the 'statute makes no provision in such matter.

2. Venue, § 34 ^* —when error in refusing motion for change of is waived. Participating in the trial of a case after refusal of a motion for a change of venue waives any error of the court in such refusal.

3. Attorney and client, § 11 ^* -—when attorney may not take acknowledgment. An affidavit for a change of venue sworn to before an attorney in the case should not be received or considered.

4. Municipal corporations, § 867 ^* —when presumed that findings of trial court are correct. In the absence from the record of a municipal ordinance upon which a prosecution is based, and of which the court cannot take judicial notice, the findings of the trial court will be presumed correct.

5. Appeal and error, § 966 ^* —binding effect of record. The Appellate Court is bound by the record as to the proceedings before the trial court.