Gen. No. 22,149.
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Abstract of the Decision.
1. Venue, § 10 * —when denial of motion for change of not deemed to be upon ground of want of reasonable notice. The action of the *375trial court in denying defendants’ motion for change of venue cannot be deemed to be on the ground of want of reasonable notice when the notice is served at two o’clock of the day before that of hthe hearing of the motion, and the parties are represented at such hearing and no longer notice is required or usually given, and there is no complaint of insufficient notice.
*374Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Courtney, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.
Reversed and remanded.
Opinion filed March 20, 1917.
Statement of the Case.
Action by B. A. L. Thompson, Jr., plaintiff, against Lucius J. M. Malmin and Laura U. Malmin, defendants. From an order denying defendants’ motion for a change of venue, defendants bring error.
Lucius J. M. Malmin, for plaintiffs in error.
William B. Denmark, for defendant in error.
delivered the opinion of the court.
*3752. Venue, § 24 * —when denial of motion for change of is erroneous. The court cannot arbitrarily deny a change of venue where one brings himself within the provisions of the statute.
3. Trial, § 286*—when necessary to hear evidence. Entry of judgment upon issues of fact raised by the pleadings in a trial before the court without hearing evidence, held to be erroneous.