Sontag v. Gooding

Citations

• 85 Ill. 452

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—relevancy, as rebutting. Where the plaintiff sued to recover back money paid to the defendant for a title to land which the defendant could not procure, and the defendant gave evidence tending to show that the money was paid for professional services only, and the plaintiff then offered to prove that certain proceedings were void which defendant relied on as evidence of title under the deed procured by him as plaintiff’s attorney, which the court refused to admit: Held, that the evidence did not tend to rebut the proofs made by defendant, and was irrelevant, and properly rejected.</p>