Case Name: The President and Directors of the Manhattan Company et al. Defendants in Error, vs. Ernest H. Eversz, Plaintiff in Error
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1914-04-23
Citations: 262 Ill. 612
Docket Number: 
Parties: The President and Directors of the Manhattan Company et al. Defendants in Error, vs. Ernest H. Eversz, Plaintiff in Error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 612–613

Head Matter:
The President and Directors of the Manhattan Company et al. Defendants in Error, vs. Ernest H. Eversz, Plaintiff in Error.
Opinion filed April 23, 1914.
Appeals and .errors-—when there is nothing for the Supreme Court to review. Where a petition for writ of certiorari under the Practice act is granted upon petitioner’s representation that the trial court refused, in an action against him to recover installments of rent, to permit him to present evidence of a defense that the lessor was not diligent in seeking to re-let the premises, but the record does not show that any attempt was made to establish such defense by evidehce or any ruling of the trial court denying the right to mak'e such defense, there is nothing for the Supreme Court to review.
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Eirst District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Isidore H. Himes, Judge, presiding.
W. T. Alden, C. R. Latham, and H. P. Young, for plaintiff in error.
Moses, Rosenthal & Kennedy, (Walter Bachrach, and Sigmund W. David, of counsel,) for defendants in error.

Opinion:
Mr. Chief Justice
Cooke delivered the opinion of the court :
Defendants in error recovered a judgment in the sum of $1402.31 in the municipal court of Chicago against the plaintiff in error, who appealed to the Appellate Co-urt for the First District, where the judgment of the municipal court was affirmed. A writ of certiorari was granted by this court upon the petition of plaintiff in error, and he has brought the record here for review. , i
The suit was upon a written lease of certain premises in New York City, to recover three quarterly installments of rent alleged to be due from plaintiff in error under the terms of the lease. The defendants in error had theretofore brought suit in the municipal court of Chicago to recover the two preceding quarterly installments of rent and had recovered judgment therefor, which judgment was subsequently affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District. In the former action the plaintiff in error interposed several defenses, one of which was, that defendants in error ought not to recover because after the abandonment of the premises by plaintiff in error's assignee defendants in error did not exercise reasonable diligence to re-let the same. In the suit at bar plaintiff in error interposed the same defense by plea, and the sole ground urged for reversal is, that the court refused to- admit evidence to establish this defense on the ground that the judgment in the former suit was a bar to every defense made, or which might have been made, in that suit.
Plaintiff in error was awarded the writ of certiorari herein upon the representation made in his petition for the writ that in the former suit the defense above referred to was not adjudicated, and that in' the present case he offered evidence in support of his plea setting up this defense but that the court refused to admit such evidence. A careful examination of the abstract, however, discloses ño attempt by the plaintiff in error to- establish this defense by evidence and no ruling by the trial court refusing to permit him to make such defense in this action. There is therefore nothing before us for review.
The judgment of the Appellate Court is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.