Stampley v. Collins

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE MURPHY

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant, Earl Collins, appeals from the denial of his petition to vacate a judgment entered against him. The petition, filed five months after judgment, was based on section 72 of the Civil Practice Act.

Plaintiff sued defendant for damages allegedly sustained as a result of defendant “forcibly and wantonly” ejecting plaintiff from a store which defendant had leased to plaintiff for a tavern. The complaint alleged that “after two weeks of occupancy, the defendant forcibly and wantonly ejected the plaintiff from said store having…