Gilbert v. Gallup
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the Case, against a sheriff for alleged negligence in failing to levy an execution. Trial in the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Adams
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment for the sum of §1,000 in favor of appellee and against appellant, rendered in an action on the case against the appellant, as sheriff of Cook county, for alleged negligence in failing to levy an execution and alias execution issued on a certain judgment for the sum of $2,750 and costs, in a suit in which appellee was plaintiff, and Eugene Kauffman and M. H. Kauffman, his wife, were defendants.
Appellant, by his counsel, objects that improper evidence was admitted in behalf of the appellee; that…
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