Miller v. McElin
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Carroll county; the Hon. Oscar E. Heard, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
A stock of millinery goods belonging to appellant, Charlotte Miller, was, in January, 1916, materially damaged by water leaking into her apartments because of the parting of a pipe in a room on the floor above. On the assumption that the three appellees were tenants of the room and owed her a duty to properly care for said pipe and negligently permitted it to freeze and therefore pull apart, she brought this action on the case against them. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the court directed a verdict for the defendants, upon…
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