Supreme Court of Illinois

In a replevin action, judgement in favor of plaintiff is reversed where admission of the plaintiff's testimony was in violation of the Dead-Man's Act because the purported purchaser was not alive to refute the claim that there had been no payment and because this testimony affected the outcome.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/06/2005
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• Justice KARMEIER delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip A. Prossnitz, of the Law Office of Theodore A.E. Poehlmann, P.C., Woodstock, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• W. Randal Baudin, of Baudin & Baudin, Dundee, for appellee.