Hart v. Evans

On May 31, 1939 Sylvester J. Hart and John Robert Smith filed a statement of claim in the municipal court of Chicago against Charles Gr. Evans, doing business as Evans Truck Lines, Inc., and Evans Truck Lines, Inc. On December 24, 1940 plaintiffs filed an amended two count statement of claim. Defendants filed an answer presenting defenses. The record shows that on May 23,1941 the cause came on for trial without a jury, “the defendants being absent and not represented”; that the court, being fully advised in the premises, found the individual defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in…