Case ID: ill-app_151/html/0547-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Mack", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Best Brewing Company of Chicago, Plaintiff in Error, v. Louis Sachs, Defendant in Error.
    Gen. No. 14,667.
    
      Verdicts—when set aside. A verdict which awards damages and a judgment thereon are erroneous, if all evidence as to damages has been stricken from the record.
    Replevin. Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles N. Goodnow, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1908.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed November 19, 1909.
    Winston, Lowt & McGinn, for plaintiff in error.
    Thomas W. Reilly, for defendant in error.
   Mr. Justice Mack

delivered the opinion of the court.

The judgment in this replevin suit is that the defendant have return of the property and that he have and recover $100 for his damages with costs. Whatever evidence there was in the case bearing on the question of damages was stricken out; even if it had remained in it would not have justified the verdict.

The evidence leaves the merits of the controversy and the right of possession and property very doubtful. It does not clearly appear from the testimony what has become of the old fixtures or whether defendant claims an outright gift or an exchange of old goods for new, either permanently or temporarily.

The judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded

Reversed and remanded.