Miller v. Simon

Defendants appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff in an action for damages for trespass to the plaintiff’s realty. The case was tried before the court without a jury and the court assessed compensatory damages in the sum of $2,765 and punitive damages in the sum of $1,500.

The plaintiff is the owner of two adjacent vacant lots which were surrounded on three sides by approximately 300 lots owned by the defendant, Mundelein Realty Corporation, in the village of Mundelein, Illinois. These lots owned by Mundelein Realty Corporation were being developed as part of the Bel-Aire…