Stuart v. Board of Supervisors
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Ebeob to the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by Henry Stuart and Janies Kane, against the Board of Supervisors of LaSalle county, and Arthur 0. Mclntire, sheriff of the same county. The substance of the bill and the proceedings thereon are given in-the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Walkeb
delivered the opinion of the Court:
Complainants were indicted, and on the 21st of June, 1876, tried and convicted of the crime of petit larceny, and the court sentenced them to thirty days’ confinement in the county jail, and they were confined therein when this bill was filed. The bill alleges that the county jail is very filthy and unhealthy, and wholly unsuitable to be used for the confinement of human beings, and confinement is injurious to health, and that complainants’ health has been impaired by being confined therein, and that they fear, and have reason to fear, that…
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