Schoonover v. Myers
Illinois Supreme Court
Myebs sued Schoonover in case for a malicious prosecution, the latter having caused Myers and two of his infant children to be arrested for having stolen a bee-hive, worth ten dollars, and causing the children to be confined for five days. Myers was ill, at the time the officer came to arrest him, but he subsequently appeared before the examining magistrate, waived an examination, and gave bail for his appearance at the Circuit Court.
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Myebs sued Schoonover in case for a malicious prosecution, the latter having caused Myers and two of his infant children to be arrested for having stolen a bee-hive, worth ten dollars, and causing the children to be confined for five days. Myers was ill, at the time the officer came to arrest him, but he subsequently appeared before the examining magistrate, waived an examination, and gave bail for his appearance at the Circuit Court. The two children were acquitted and discharged, after the five days’ confinement. At the Circuit Court Myers was discharged by the prosecuting attorney, no bill…
1Opinion of the Court
Catoit, O. J.
This case presents a most extraordinary spectacle. Rarely have we met, either in the books or in our own experience, so revolting a case of conspiracy, subornation of perjury, and perjury, as this record presents; and the difficulty in the case, is to determine which is the guilty party, and which the victim. We have carefully studied all the evidence in the light of the very lucid arguments on both sides, in which the subject is quite exhausted, and we still have doubts hanging about us, whether the boy Brill is an abandoned, perjured little villain, as one party insists, or a…
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