Lipman v. Goebel

David Lipman, the appellant, was arrested and imprisoned by the sheriff of Cook county under a capias ad satisfaciendum issued upon a judgment rendered by the circuit court of Cook county for $3000 in favor of the appellees, Arthur V. Goebel and Edward Schatz, against the appellant, in an action on the case. The judgment was originally obtained for $6000= The cause was appealed to the Appellate Court for the First District. The Appellate Court there found the defendant in that case had intentionally and deliberately taken the law into his own hands and committed the trespass charged in the…