Jesse French Piano & Organ Co. v. Phelps

RICE, Associate Justice.

—This suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for trespass alleged to have been "committed by the agents, servants and employes of appellant .upon the property of appellee. The petition charges that on the 10th of December, 1904, appellee was in possession of a dwelling house in the town of Murphysboro, Illinois, and that on said date appellant broke into said house and took therefrom a piano; that it left the house open and insecure, in consequence of which many articles of household and kitchen furniture, wearing apparel and valuable books…