Mueller v. Kuhn
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass, for assault and battery. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
The judgment of §500, from which this appeal is prosecuted, was recovered in an action of trespass on the case brought by the appellee against her half-sister, the appellant. The verdict was for $900, from which the appellee remitted $400, presumptively because the trial court required it as a condition for not granting a new trial.
Had the remittitur been of twice the amount that was remitted, we should be much better satisfied to let the judgment stand. But we are unable to discover in the record any sufficient ground for a reversal that is open to us to act upon. Substantially every…
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