Worthy v. Birk
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jasper county; the Hon. William B. Weight, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1921.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barry
In an action on the ease, appellee sued Christian H. Birk, Lina Birk, J. W. Hutton, T. L. Hutton and George Stanley, charging them with having unlawfully conspired together with the intent of injuring him by charging him with the murder of bis wife, Grace Worthy, and in furtherance of said unlawful conspiracy to injure his name and fame and without probable cause and without his consent removed her body from the grave, took therefrom and destroyed certain organs and replaced the body in the grave without said organs, etc. At the first trial appellee dismissed the suit as to George Stanley,…
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