Edwards v. City of Chicago

This is an interlocutory appeal, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 304(a) (210 Ill. 2d R. 304(a)), from a July 6, 2006, order of the circuit court of Cook County. That order granted partial summary judgment for the defendant-appellee, City of Chicago (the City), on one portion of the complaint by plaintiffs-appellants (certain Chicago police officers, as set out below). That part of the complaint alleged that the City committed the intentional tort of conversion of their property when, without proper authorization or legal authority, it filed liens to recover line-of-duty medical expenses paid…