Robinson v. Stewart

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

On July 5, 1922, Max Robinson, an attorney at law residing in Chicago, commenced an action in case, in the superior court of Cook county, for damages for false imprisonment' against Roy J. Stewart (sheriff of McHenry county and a resident of that county), the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, a corporation, and S. A. Dickson and James McCarthy (residents of Cook county). In the declaration it was averred in substance that on June 1, 1921, defendants seized plaintiff in Chicago and compelled him to go to a police office;…