Gottschalk v. Hughes

This was assumpsit, in the Cook circuit court, by Love Hughes, plaintiff, against Charles Gottschalk and Simon Koch, defendants, to recover for plaintiff’s services as a malster of barley for the defendants. The action was dismissed as to Koch, and the defendant Gottschalk pleaded the general issue with notice of set-off, on which the parties went to trial by a jury, who found for the plaintiff, assessing the damages at two hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty cents.

The defendant entered his motion for a new trial, for the reason the verdict was' against the law and the evidence, and for…