Gurnea v. Seeley

Citations

• 66 Ill. 500

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—to prove'a.former recovery. On the trial of an action of replevin, where the plaintiff claimed the property as bailee of his father, the defendant, in order to show a former suit by the father against him for the same property, in which the plaintiff was defeated, was permitted to prove the minutes on the judge’s docket, and the verdict, which was not guilty, without offering the record proper, or any judgment: Held, that the minutes of the judge were not admissible to prove the proceedings in the prior suit, and that the verdict availed nothing without a judgment,</p>