Haumueller v. Ackermann

Action of unlawful detainer instituted before a justice of the peace, appealed to the circuit court and there tried anew. The present appeal from the judgment of the circuit court was taken on the record proper, the principal error assigned being that the judgment is not in accordance with the verdict of the jury. The complaint lays: the value of the monthly rents and profits of the tenement unlawfully detained at $12.50, prays judgment of restitution and damages in the sum of $12.50. The verdict returned was in the following form:

“We, the jury in the above cause, find the defendant guilty,…