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35 Ill. App. 296

Nash v. Burns

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 22, 1890

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1890-01-22

<p>Trespass—Writ of Restitution—Acts in Execution of—Evidence—Practice.</p> <p>Counsel should not be permitted in civil cases to read law to the jury.</p>

Relies on City of Chicago v. McGiven · Burns v. Nash

Decided 1890-01-22

Gary, P. J.

¶1It is unnecessary to inquire whether this judgment should be sustained, if the error for which it is to be reversed were not in the record.

¶2This is an action of trespass for acts done in the execution of a writ of restitution, issued upon the judgment by confession, reversed by this court in Burns v. Nash, 23 Ill. App. 552.

¶3On the trial of the present case, the opinion of this court in that, was, against the objection and exception of the appellant, read by the appellee in the evidence to the jury.

¶4Since the case of Chicago v. McGiven, 78 Ill. 347, it is impossible to justify this, nor can it be overlooked upon the flattering statement in the brief of the appellee that “the opinions ' of this court are good reading and will not hurt anybody.”

¶5A defendant in an action for unliquidated and vindictive damages, against whom a few lines, near the bottom of page 557 of that opinion, were read as a text for a closing speech by the plaintiff’s counsel, would not be apt to concur in that statement. The judgment is reversed and the case remanded.

¶6Reversed and remanded.

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