Hough v. Hoodless
Citations
- 35 Ill. 166
Syllabus
<p>1. Military authorities — willful destruction'of property by them. Where a military officer causelessly and willfully orders and procures the soldiers under his command to destroy a building outside of military lines, he will be liable to the owner for the damage thereby occasioned.</p> <p>2. And it seems, where ground upon which a building is standing, near a military camp, is necessarily required for the purpose of military parades, and the building is an obstruction to the proper use of the ground for such purpose, still the destruction of the building will be deemed causeless and willful, when it could be easily moved upon rollers.</p>
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- “[T]he doctrine of part performance has no application to contracts that cannot be performed by either party within a year.”
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Judges: Breese
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