Taylor v. Koshetz
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county. This was a suit by the appellee against the appellants, orig-mating before a justice of the peace, for damages done to real estate. The evidence showed that the plaintiff was the owner of a house and lot in Chatsworth, which rented for $8 to $12 per month.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county. This was a suit by the appellee against the appellants, orig-mating before a justice of the peace, for damages done to real estate. The evidence showed that the plaintiff was the owner of a house and lot in Chatsworth, which rented for $8 to $12 per month. The defendants claimed to have entered under a lease executed to them by the father and mother of the plaintiff, for the entire lot, for six months, at $10 rent for the whole term, but the other party claimed that the lot, if rented at all, was only for the privilege of building cribs thereon,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an action for damage to real estate, brought before a justice of the peace of Livingston county, by Margaret Koshetz, plaintiff, and against George O. Taylor and others, defendants, and taken by appeal to the circuit court, and the venue changed to the county of McLean, where there was a trial by jury, and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff. A motion for a new trial Avas denied, and judgment rendered on the verdict, to reverse Avhich, defendants appeal to this court. The errors assigned are, that improper instructions were given for the plaintiff, and that the verdict is contrary…
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