Sinamaker v. Rose
Appellate Court of Illinois
Statement of the Case. This was an action of replevin commenced before a justice of the peace on the 13th day of December, 1894. The goods were not taken on the writ, and a judgment in trover was had before the justice, and appealed by appellant to the Superior Court, where the case was tried, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $200, on which judgment was entered, and the defendant brings the cause to this court for review.
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Statement of the Case. This was an action of replevin commenced before a justice of the peace on the 13th day of December, 1894. The goods were not taken on the writ, and a judgment in trover was had before the justice, and appealed by appellant to the Superior Court, where the case was tried, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $200, on which judgment was entered, and the defendant brings the cause to this court for review. On September 6, 1893, appellee bought a bill of household goods of the appellant, amounting in all to the sum of $120.20. On February 19, 1894, she…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
Appellant having failed to inform the jury as to the amount he received for appellee’s bedroom set which he had sold, the jury, from their knowledge of the worth of such articles, a knowledge all persons are presumed to have (Ohio & Mississippi Ry. Co. v. Irwin, 27 Ill. 178), may have thought .the same to have been worth at least $12.50; or they may have, under the circumstances of the tortious sale, appellee’s testimony, of what she had paid, and appellant’s telling her to go to hell, when, after such sale, she asked him what he liad done with her goods, treated such reply as an admission…
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