Koppel v. Rowland

Plaintiff brought suit in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County, and at the June term, 1924, a trial before a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for her for $7650. The court sustained defendant’s motion for new trial on the ground that the cause of action was barred by the Statute of Limitations. Plaintiff appealed from that order.

Plaintiff was a sister of the defendant. The petition states that in 1897, in the State of Illinois, defendant came into possession of moneys belonging to plaintiff to the amount of five thousand dollars, and that the said money was wrongfully held by the…