Conkling v. Whitmore

This is a suit for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution brought by appellant against appellee, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained on account of appellant’s arrest and prosecution for violating the fish laws of this state, by appellee, then sheriff of Jo Daviess county. Prior to July 19, 1904, numerous complaints were made by the owners of Younkers lake, in Jo Daviess county, to appellee, who was sheriff of that county, that persons were fishing with a seine in that lake, without their consent, and that Younkers lake was private property. Younkers lake is an inland body…