Turnipseed v. Brown

PRESIDING JUSTICE ROBERT E. GORDON

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs Darniece Bailey Turnipseed, Ramon Turnipseed, and Raymond Thomas seek to recover the interest that accrued on money that they deposited with defendant Dorothy Brown, the clerk of the circuit court of Cook County, in connection with bail bonds that they executed. In addition to suing defendant Brown, plaintiffs sued the county of Cook, a body politic, 1 which, plaintiffs allege, would be liable for any judgement issued against defendant Brown.

On August 19, 2008, the circuit court of Cook county granted plaintiffs’…