Hellman v. Roe

Appellee, Bertha Hellman, recovered a judgment in. ejectment in the superior court of Cook county against J. Newton Roe, appellant. The suit was originally against Tony Calicos and appellant but. was dismissed as to Calicos.

At the close of appellee’s case, and again at the close of all the evidence, appellant made a motion for a directed verdict, and the denial of this motion is assigned as error. It will only be necessary for us to consider two of the grounds urged in support of this assignment of error: (1) That appellee failed to make a prima facie case; and (2) that the court erred in…