Smith v. Swart

The opinion of the court was delivered bjr

Lloyd, J.

The appeal in this case is from a judgment of nonsuit in the Supreme Court entered at the Middlesex Cir cuit and from the refusal to direct a verdict for the plaintiffs at the trial before a judge and jury. The action was based upon a judgment obtained in the municipal court of Chicago upon a confession authorized in a written lease between the plaintiffs and the defendant. The answer denied the jurisdiction of the Chicago court.

The proofs in the present case at the time of the granting of the nonsuit were these: An exemplified copy of the…