Legal Opinion

Beveridge v. Chetlain

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 15, 1878PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jora G-. Rogers, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Bailey J.

On the20th of October, 1868, Oliver Smith being about to commence, in the Circuit Court of Cook County against one George Aylesworth, an action on the case for false imprisonment, filed his affidavit as required by the statute, and thereupon sued out a writ of capias ad respondendwn, upon which said Aylesworth was arrested and held to bail. Aylesworth, thereupon, executed to John L. Beveridge, then sheriff of Cook county, a bail bond in the penal sum of §3,000, with Martin O. Walker as his surety, and was discharged from said arrest.

While this suit was pending and undetermined, the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Mitchell v. BassTexas Supreme Court · 1862
  2. Harris v. LesterIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  3. Clap v. CofranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
  4. Wheelock v. PierceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1850
  5. Holbrook v. KlenertMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Mohlenbrock v. PikeIllinois Supreme Court · 1902

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