Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad v. Barrett

On the former appeal of this cause (252 Ill. 86,) it was held that the plaintiff need not go back of the decree mentioned in the opinion then rendered to prove its title as against the defendant on November 11, 1902. Upon the remandment of the cause a second trial was had, at which the decree referred -to was admitted in evidence. Thereupon the defendant gave in evidence, over the plaintiff’s objection, the docket and files of a justice of the peace showing a forcible entry and detainer suit by the plaintiff against the defendant for the premises here involved, begun in August, 1903, in which…