Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. v. Buckley
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. N. M. Laws, Judge, presiding. This suit was brought in the circuit court of Peoria county, by Warren B. Buckley and Thomas J. Pursley, composing the firm of Buckley, Pursley & Co., against the Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company. The declaration is in the usual form in trover, to which the plea of not guilty was filed.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. N. M. Laws, Judge, presiding. This suit was brought in the circuit court of Peoria county, by Warren B. Buckley and Thomas J. Pursley, composing the firm of Buckley, Pursley & Co., against the Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company. The declaration is in the usual form in trover, to which the plea of not guilty was filed. On the trial before the court without the intervention of a jury, the court found the issues for plaintiffs, and assessed then-damages at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
On the trial of this case defendant submitted numerous-propositions to be held as law applicable to the case, most of which were refused, and on that decision of the court the questions of law discussed arise. In order to determine whether the rulings of the court on the propositions submitted were erroneous or not, it will be necessary to ascertain the principal facts, and in doing so it will be understood that all the facts the evidence tends to establish, were found, by the trial and Appellate courts, in favor of plaintiffs.
It appears that defendant is a warehouseman, and has an elevator…
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