Ditto v. Pease
Appellate Court of Illinois
Replevin.—Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge, presiding. Finding and judgment for defendant; appeal by plaintiff. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hokton
Upon the trial of this cause appellees offered no testimony, and there is no testimony to support the fourth and fifth pleas. Appellees rely entirely upon the alleged lack of testimony to support appellant’s claim, i. e., they depend for success upon the weakness of appellant’s case.
The only testimony which it is claimed tends to show any right, title or interest in appellees, or either of them, in or to the property in question, is the fact that a deputy sheriff took such property upon what purported or was claimed to be a replevin writ. No such writ is offered in evidence. It does not…
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