Carver v. Jones

Decided September 15, 1867

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1867-09-15

Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. Benjamin R. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass, brought in the court below, by William D. Carver against J. Russell Jones and Frederick L. Kent, for false imprisonment. The declaration contains four counts.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1914

1 state decisions

Relies on Johnson v. Jones

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Decided 1867-09-15

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Mr. Chief Justice Breese

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2This case is, in all its important elements, identical with that of Madison Y. Johnson v. J. Russell Jones et al., decided at the April Term, 1867 (44 Ill. 142), and we perceive nothing in the argument now submitted by the counsel of defendants to induce us to re-examine the decision in that case. With the results there reached we are satisfied.

¶3The judgment of the Circuit Court overruling the demurrer to the defendants’ fourth plea must be reversed and the cause remanded, with directions to that court that the said plea presents no sufficient defense to the plaintiff’s action.

¶4tTudgment reversed.