Case ID: ill-app_204/html/0329-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles A. Wahrer et al., copartners, trading as Wahrer Brothers, Appellants, v. Ciecilia Molloy, Appellee.
    Gen. No. 22,725.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Stelk, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed March 12, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action in replevin by Charles A. Wahrer et al., co-partners, trading as Wahrer Brothers, plaintiffs, against Ciecilia Molloy, defendant, for the recovery of a diamond ring, statement in trover being filed on non-recovery of the ring. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Evidence, § 421*—how value may be proved. Testimony as to the value of a diamond ring by a party not an expert nor in any way qualified to testify on the subject, held to be inadmissible.
    Kraft, Kraet & Erskine, for appellants.
    No appearance for appellee.
   Mr. Justice Dever

delivered the opinion of the court.