Case Name: Joab Fanning v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1880-07-02
Citations: 6 Ill. App. 536
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joab Fanning v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
Joab Fanning v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Verdict and judgment — Variance.—A verdict in an action of forcible detainer found the defendant guilty except as to certain lands therein specified. The judgment, as to the exception, not being as broad as the exception, is not supported by the verdict, and therefore is reversed.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrtjs Epler, Judge, presiding.
Opinion filed July 2, 1880.
Messrs. Epler & Gallon and Mr. George W. Smith, for appellant.
Messrs. Brown, Kirby & Russell, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
A re-hearing was granted in this case on account of an alleged variance between the verdict and the judgment. The suit was an action of forcible, detainer commenced before a justice of the peace and appealed to the circuit court. The complaint described the land by metes, and claimed two hundred and twenty acres. The verdict finds the defendant, guilty of unlawfully detaining the possession of the lands described in the complaint with certain exceptions, the first of which reads as follows: "Excepting 61 93-100 acres W. side, W. half, NE. fractional £ Sec. four, T. 13, N. R. 9 West." The judgment follows the description in the complaint as to the whole of the land, and then proceeds as follows: " Excepting 61 38-100 acres west side, west half northeast fractional £ section four, township 13 north, range 9 west." This exception is not as broad as that in the verdict by fifty-five hundredths of an acre. The judgment is 'not supported by the verdict, and is therefore reversed and remanded, with directions to the court below to enter judgment in conformity with the verdict.-
Reversed and remanded.