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Horton v. Mozin

Appellate Court of Illinois
May 11, 1950
341 Ill. App. 66 (Ill. App. Ct. 1950)

Summary

In Horton v. Mozin (1950), 341 Ill. App. 66, 92 N.E.2d 671 (abstract), the same district of the appellate court which had written Plotkin discredited it, saying that it overlooked Belskis. The Horton court held the trial court to have committed reversible error in admitting for impeachment a written statement signed by a 12-year-old and purportedly taken from the child when no adults accompanied her. The evidence indicated that the child did not read the statement and that it was read to her.

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Opinion

Gen. No. 44,879. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 11, 1950 Released for publication May 29, 1950

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. JOHN T. CULBERTSON, JR., Judge, presiding. Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the October term, 1949.

Shavin Hamilton and Leo S. Karlin, for appellant;

Leo S. Karlin, of counsel;

Burt A. Crowe, for appellee;

Carl E. Abrahamson, of counsel.


Not to be published in full. Opinion filed May 11, 1950; released for publication May 29, 1950.


Summaries of

Horton v. Mozin

Appellate Court of Illinois
May 11, 1950
341 Ill. App. 66 (Ill. App. Ct. 1950)

In Horton v. Mozin (1950), 341 Ill. App. 66, 92 N.E.2d 671 (abstract), the same district of the appellate court which had written Plotkin discredited it, saying that it overlooked Belskis. The Horton court held the trial court to have committed reversible error in admitting for impeachment a written statement signed by a 12-year-old and purportedly taken from the child when no adults accompanied her. The evidence indicated that the child did not read the statement and that it was read to her.

Summary of this case from Laughlin v. Chenoweth
Case details for

Horton v. Mozin

Case Details

Full title:Margery Horton, Minor, by Florrie Foreman, Mother and Next Friend…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois

Date published: May 11, 1950

Citations

341 Ill. App. 66 (Ill. App. Ct. 1950)
92 N.E.2d 671

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