Case ID: ill-app_204/html/0547-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mattie Hazel Moore Shaffer, by H. J. Shaffer, Plaintiff in Error, v. Robert Rose and P. J. Carey, Defendants in Error. Mattie Hazel Moore Shaffer, by H. J. Shaffer, Plaintiff in Error, v. Charles Nogle, Defendant in Error. Mattie Hazel Moore Shaffer, by H. J. Shaffer, Plaintiff in Error, v. Steve Tucker and Samuel Aiman, Defendants in Error.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the County Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Rot C. Freeman, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed April 16, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Mattie Hazel Moore Shaffer, by her next friend, H. J. Shaffer, plaintiff, against Robert Rose and P. J. Carey, defendants. Also, action by same plaintiff against Charles Nogle, defendant. Also, action by same plaintiff against Steve Tucker and Samuel Aiman, defendants. These actions were commenced before a justice of the peace and on appeal to the County Court were consolidated and tried together. From a judgment for the defendants in each case, on a directed verdict, the plaintiff brings error in each case, and by agreement the three cases were heard ón the same record.
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Action, § 71*—when action for trespass may not be maintained. In an action to recover damages for trespass, where on trial the acts of trespass complained of were shown by the plaintiff’s evidence to have occurred subsequent to the commencement of the action, held that a verdict for the defendants was properly directed.
    W. A. Perkins, for plaintiff in error.
    G-reen & Palmer, for defendants in error; Oris Barth, of counsel.
   Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court.