Werner v. Botti, Marinaccio & DeSalvo

Defendants, Botti, Marinaccio & DeSalvo and Mark and Marcia Loescher, appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Madison County which awarded plaintiff, Keith Werner, $717.02 in damages, plus court costs, on plaintiff’s small claims action for breach of contract. On this appeal, defendants contend that the circuit court erred in allowing plaintiff to present various forms of hearsay evidence and that if this hearsay is excluded from the record, there is not sufficient competent evidence to sustain the circuit court’s judgment. For the reasons which follow, we affirm.

Plaintiff is the sole…