Harpham v. Whitney
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was ah action on the case, brought by Cassius G. Whitney against Edwin B. Harpham, Thomas Covington, Isaac Vail, Benjamin A. Rosebrough, Samuel C. Conwell, John W. Pitman, and twelve others, for an alleged malicious prosecution.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was ah action on the case, brought by Cassius G. Whitney against Edwin B. Harpham, Thomas Covington, Isaac Vail, Benjamin A. Rosebrough, Samuel C. Conwell, John W. Pitman, and twelve others, for an alleged malicious prosecution. The suit was brought' in the circuit court of Mason county, and, on the plaintiff’s application, the venue was changed to Menard county, and afterwards, on the motion of the defendants, to Morgan county. The first count of the plaintiff’s declaration, in substance, states,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action on the case for an alleged malicious prosecution. The case, in general, was this:
Appellee was State’s Attorney of the 21st judicial circuit, in this State. The board of supervisors of Mason county, in said circuit, had employed two of the appellants, Con well and Pitman, attorneys at law, to prosecute legal proceedings against appellee, on account of alleged official delinquencies, some of them affecting the interests of the county in respect of its revenues. In pursuance whereof, Conwell applied to the circuit judge of the circuit to ask his counsel in respect to the…
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