Hocker v. Welti

The question involved in this appeal is whether the superior court erred in sustaining a general demurrer to plaintiff’s declaration.

The declaration is in case. It consists of two' counts, the first of which alleges, in substance, that defendants, knowing that plaintiff was a man of good repute and engaged in lucrative employment, conspired to have him declared insane, with the malicious intent to injure him and bring him, into public disgrace and have him incarcerated; that they caused plaintiff’s wife to go before the clerk of the county court in Chicago and “swear to a complaint” charging…