Merki v. Merki

The defendant in error brought this an action of forcible detainer before a justice of the peace in Cook comity, against the plaintiff in error, to recover the possession of lot 20, in block 4, Lake View High School subdivision, etc.,-in said county. The case came by appeal into the circuit court of Cook county, and the parties proceeded to trial before the court and a jury. After the parties had presented the evidence in their behalf, respectively, the court, on motion of the defendant in error, instructed the jury to return as their verdict that the plaintiff in error was guilty of…