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90 Ill. 184

Curtis v. Baugh

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1878

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1878-09-15

Hon. W. W. Heaton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by George Baugh, against Edmund Curtis, to recover damages claimed by the complainant from the cutting down and removal of trees and timber from certain lands upon which the complainant held a deed of trust to secure the payment of money, whereby his security was lessened and the premises rendered inadequate security.

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Decided 1878-09-15

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Mr. Justice Scholfield

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2When this cause was before us at a former term, the case, as then presented, was fully considered upon its merits, and the only error discovered was in the measure of damages adopted by the court below.

¶3The error now alleged is, the court below, upon the cause being remanded, refused to allow appellant to introduce additional evidence, but rendered a decree on the former evidence after correcting the error in respect to the measure of damages.

¶4Without entering upon a consideration of the effect of the order of reversal, we deem it sufficient to say that it is impossible to hold that the court erred in refusing to allow appellant to introduce additional evidence unless we were informed what that evidence was. For if it be conceded that he was entitled to introduce additional evidence, it could only be such evidence as tended to prove some fact not already sufficiently proved, and it devolves upon the party alleging error to show, by facts stated, and not by inference simply, its existence in a matter materially prejudicing his rights.

¶5For aught that we can know, the evidence offered^ may have been irrelevant or trivial, or purely cumulative as to matters already sufficiently proved.

¶6It is not shown, by anything before us, that the evidence already in the record did not fully and fairly present the issues in the case.

¶7The decree is affirmed.

¶8Decree affirmed.

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