Curtis v. Fruin-Colnon Contracting Co.

*679HYDE, P. J.

Action for trespassing on plaintiffs’ land and damaging plaintiffs’ building in East St. Louis, Illinois. Plaintiffs had a verdict for $8,000.00, and defendant has appealed from the judgment entered. It is contended that plaintiffs did not make a jury *680case; that instructions 1 and 3 were erroneous; that there were erroneous rulings on evidence, and that the verdict was excessive.

Plaintiffs owned a one story five room brick building, about 40 feet long, built about 1905, which faced south on the north side of State Street. It was one of three buildings in the same yard owned by…