Lund v. Hennessey
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass, for false imprisonment. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Nathaniel C. Sears, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
Mo judicial person, whether a chancellor sitting in a court of equity, a judge of a common law court of record, a justice of the peace, or other inferior magistrate, member of a court martial, or juror, who is a part of the court, is, for any judicial act within his jurisdiction, however erroneous or mistaken, answerable in a civil suit to a party aggrieved. Bishop on Non-Contract Law, Secs. 771,781; Cooley on Torts, Second Ed., 472; Webb’s Pollock on Torts, 138-327; Am. Ed. of Addison on Torts, Sec. 883; Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, Vol. 12, p. 33.
The only distinction in this respect between…
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- Wilderman v. SanduskyIllinois Supreme Court · 1853
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