Barnes v. City of Chicago

Plaintiff in error brought an action against the City of Chicago predicated upon “An act to suppress mob violence” in force July 1, 1905. (Chapter 38, pars. 537 to 542, Cahill’s Ill. St.) The city’s demurrer to the declaration was sustained and plaintiff elected to stand by her narr.

The declaration was in two counts. The first charged an assemblage of five or more persons in said city for the unlawful purpose of offering violence to the person and property of any one supposed to have been guilty of a violation of the law, and for the purpose of exercising correctional and regulative powers on…