Walker v. Witt

This is an appeal from two judgment orders of the rircuit court of Sangamon County. The first order, entered on July 9, 1953, pursuant to plaintiffs’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, found the defendant, Ambrose Witt, guilty of trespass on the lands and crops of the plaintiffs and ordered that a jury be impaneled for the purpose of determining damages. The second order, entered on January 29, 1954, after a jury had been waived, awarded the plaintiffs actual damages in the amount of $34 and exemplary damages in the amount of $315.

The dispute which occasioned the suit concerned the use…