White v. Bourquin
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county; the Hon. Richard S. Farrand, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendant in an action for libel.
Appellant, William C. White, and appellee, Leopold F. Bourquin, in 1915, resided in Apple River, a village of six or seven hundred inhabitants on the northern border of Jo Daviess county. Appellant was a member of the village board of trustees. There was much agitation of questions arising under the local option laws of this State. Appellant was prominent on the “dry” side of the. controversy, and had introduced a village ordinance on that subject, and was said to be instrumental in the summoning of witnesses before…
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