Schumacher v. Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Replevin.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lake County; the Hon. Charles H. Donnelly, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This is an action of replevin instituted by appellant to recover from appellee possession of three tons of coke. The court, at the conclusion of all the evidence, directed a verdict for appellee, and entered judgment thereon, from which this appeal was prosecuted.
It appears from the record that Schumacher, a practicing lawyer in Chicago,'resides in Highland Park, a village of two or three thousand inhabitants, on the line of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, in Lake county. Schumacher shipped two car-loads of coke from Chicago' over appellee’s line of railroad to his residence in Highland…
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