Blanchard v. Burbank
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the lion. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass, for false imprisonment, brought, by Henrietta Blanchard against Augustus J. Burbank, Joshua W. Carr, Anna Ewart and the Washingtonian Home of Chicago.
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Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the lion. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass, for false imprisonment, brought, by Henrietta Blanchard against Augustus J. Burbank, Joshua W. Carr, Anna Ewart and the Washingtonian Home of Chicago. The declaration charges the defendants with assaulting the plaintiff and taking her forcibly and against her will from her residence in the city ofChicago to the Martha Washington Home, an asylum for distracted and inebriate persons, situated at Kavenswood in Cook county, and there detaining and imprisoning her, forcibly and…
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, J.
As the bill of exceptions does not purport to contain all the evidence given at the trial, it will be presumed that sufficient evidence was heard to sustain the verdict. The principal burden of the argument presented by the counsel for defendants Burbank and Carr is, to show that, as to their clients, the verdict is contrary to the evidence; but as the conclusive presumption of the law is against them on this proposition, it is unnecessary for us to consider the arguments by which they seek to support it.
They also urge that certain of the instructions given, as they claim, at the instance of…
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