Kennedy v. City of Chicago

Kenneth Kennedy and Squire Whittington, Jr., filed a complaint in the superior court of Cook county against the City of Chicago under secs. 1 to 4 of “An Act to suppress mob violence, ’ ’ approved May 16,1905 (pars. 512 to 515, ch. 38, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1949 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 37.481-37.484]) to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by Mr. Kennedy and for property damage sustained by Mr. Whittington, alleged to have been inflicted on them by a mob assembled “for the unlawful purpose of offering violence to the person and property of plaintiffs ... in an effort to exercise…