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  "name": "Frederick K. Parke v. Amelia Proby",
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      "Frederick K. Parke v. Amelia Proby."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the\" court.\nThis action, originally instituted before a Cook county justice of the peace, is here for review from the judgment of the Circuit Court, to which an appeal was prosecuted from the judgment of the justice of the peace. Appellee maintained her claim for $140 in both tribunals.\nParke leased from Mrs. Proby an apartment in the apartment building number 105 Forty-seventh street, Chicago, for a term of two years commencing May 1, 1904, at an advance monthly rental, during the term, of seventy dollars. The lease was in writing.\nThe trial in the Circuit Court was before the court with a jury, but the learned judge, on the motion of the plaintiff, directed a verdict for $140, the amount claimed.\nAt the end of the first year Parke removed from the demised premises, claiming a constructive eviction arising from the insufficiency of heat and hot water supplied to the apartment during the months of December, January and February previous. The effect of the lack of sufficient heat, it is claimed, was the sickness of two of Parke\u2019s children. There was a covenant in the lease that the lessor should furnish steam heat and hot water.\nThe claim of conditions constituting an eviction which existed several months prior to removal, and which did not obtain at the time of removal, is insufficient to constitute in law an eviction or justify the abandonment of the leased premises under such claim. Orcutt v. Isham, 70 Ill. App. 102.\nActions of the landlord which will sustain a constructive eviction must be of a grave and permanent character, and done with the intention of depriving the tenant of the full enjoyment of the premises in an important and not a trivial matter. It must consist of an invasion of a material character; tending to make further occupation attendant with serious consequences or continuing discomfort. Barrett v. Boddie, 158 Ill. 479; Kistler v. Wilson, 77 Ill. App. 149.\nNo such action or condition is disclosed by this record in relation to the premises in question at the time Parke vacated them.\nThe medical man testifies that during the winter months the children were ill, suffering from colds, but to what the sickness was in fact attributable does not appear. There seems to be an assumption that the cause of the children\u2019s colds was lack of heat, but experience' teaches, and it is common knowledge, that more colds are traceable to over-heating than to a moderate temperature. The nurse\u2019s idea of necessary heat for the baby was between seventy-five and eighty degrees Fahrenheit. Such a temperature of artificial heat in a living apartment is deleterious and not conducive to health. There is no evidence in this record of any tangible damage suffered by appellant. It consequently became the duty of the court to instruct the jury to find a verdict for the amount of the claim for the two months rent sued for. There were no questions of fact for the judgment of the jury. The action of the court in so instructing the jury was in accord with legal principle applicable to the situation of the cause at the time appellee moved for a peremptory instruction in her favor.\nThere is no error in this record, and the judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "G-eorge N. Morgau & Bro., for appellant.",
      "Samuel J. Howe and Balph B. Keller, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Frederick K. Parke v. Amelia Proby.\nGen. No. 12,881.\n1. Lease\u2014what does, not justify abandonment of. The claim of conditions constituting an eviction which existed several months prior to removal, and which did not obtain at the time of the removal, is insufficient to constitute in law an eviction or justify the abandonment of the leasehold premises under such claim.\n2. Eviction\u2014what essential to establish constructive. Actions of the landlord which will sustain a constructive eviction must be of a grave and permanent character, and done with the intention of depriving the tenant of the full enjoyment of the premises in an important and not a trivial matter. It must consist of an invasion of a material character, tending to make further occupation attendant with serious consequences or continuing discomfort.\nAction commenced before' justice of the peace. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richabd S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1906.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 13, 1906.\nG-eorge N. Morgau & Bro., for appellant.\nSamuel J. Howe and Balph B. Keller, for appellee."
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