Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Co. v. Kichler

Citations

• 48 Ill. 438

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—concerning the admissibility of certain evidence in a particular case— to determine value. In an action against a railway company for damages, in the failure to deliver a certain quantity of whiskey, which it had undertaken to do, the defendants, on the trial, offered to prove that the whisky had been shipped by the plaintiffs in fraud of the United States Revenue Laws, no tax having been paid thereon, which evidence the court refused to admit: Meld, that this evidence was proper, for the purpose of determining the value of the whiskey. For, if the tax of two dollars per gallon had been paid, the value of the raw material would be enhanced to that extent, and if not paid, it would be decreased that amount.</p>