Fanning v. Brandl
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Kickham Scanlait, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McSurely
John Fanning, hereinafter called plaintiff, recovered a judgment against Paul P. and George Brandi, hereinafter called defendants, in a suit alleging an assault committed by them against him. Defendants seek to reverse this judgment.
The plaintiff, then sixty years of age, got into a dispute with the defendants, coal dealers, in their office after their alleged failure to deliver some coal to plaintiff, which he claimed to have paid for in advance. While remonstrating with them, in language the character of which is disputed, the defendants, as plaintiff says, shoved and pushed him towards and…
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- Lynch v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1909