Legal Opinion

Higgins v. Hide & Leather National Bank

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 13, 1899PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Trover. — Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. George A. Trude, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1899.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard

The facts of this case appear sufficiently stated in Hide and Leather National Bank v. West et al., 20 Ill. App. 61, when at the March term, 1886, of this court, a judgment in favor of the present appellant (by his firm name) ivas reversed and the cause remanded, because the verdict was not supported by the evidence, and for error in a certain instruction.

Since that decision the case has been tried twice, resulting, the first time, in a verdict in favor of appellant, which the trial court set aside, and at the last trial in a verdict directed by the court in favor of the appellee; and the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Offutt v. World's Columbian ExpositionIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  2. Hide & Leather National Bank v. WestAppellate Court of Illinois · 1885

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Vosseler v. WheelerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901

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