Legal Opinion

People v. Marquis

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 17, 1919No. 13039PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Writ of Error to the County Court of McHenry county; the Hon. C. P. Barnes, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Dunn

Harvey Marquis left Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the afternoon of August 26, 1919, for Chicago, driving an auto truck loaded with eleven barrels of bottled beer. He was advised not to go through Lake county for fear of being arrested but to go through McHenry county and it would be all right. Accordingly ■ he chose a road through McHenry county, and while in that county after dark, having no lights, he drove off the road, into a farmyard 100 or 200 feet from the road, stopped and went to sleep on the' truck. Soon after he was awakened by a deputy sheriff, arrested and taken to' Woodstock, the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Lawton v. SteeleSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. North American Cold Storage Co. v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  3. Coe v. Armour Fertilizer WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  4. Lawton v. . SteeleNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
  5. Security Trust & Safety Vault Co. v. City of LexingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1906

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Illinois Crime Investigating Commission v. BuccieriIllinois Supreme Court · 1967
  2. People v. BroadCalifornia Supreme Court · 1932
  3. Northern Trust Co. v. SanfordIllinois Supreme Court · 1923
  4. Pacesetter Homes, Inc. v. Village of South HollandIllinois Supreme Court · 1959
  5. Allen v. Lindbeck, Justice of the PeaceUtah Supreme Court · 1939

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