Legal Opinion
Bush v. Babb
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided December 22, 1959No. Gen. 47,726PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kiley
This is a suit by a former inmate of the Connty Jail and his father, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful neglect by the Sheriff and Warden of the Cook Connty Jail as a result of which the inmate contracted tuberculosis and became a financial burden to his father. The trial court, on defendants’ motions, dismissed the suit and plaintiffs have appealed.
The motion to dismiss admitted the well pleaded facts. Carl Bush, while an inmate of the Cook County Jail from October 1, 1951, to March 1, 1952, contracted a cold which grew steadily worse. From the beginning of the illness he kept…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Mower v. WilliamsIllinois Supreme Court · 1949
- Everett James Peckham v. M. P. ScanlonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1957
- Papagianakis v. The SamosCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1950
- State ex rel. Cocking v. WadeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1898
- Lang v. WoodCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1937
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3Cited by20 opinions
- United States v. MunizSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Roberts v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Dezort v. Village of HinsdaleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1976
- Madden v. KuehnAppellate Court of Illinois · 1978
- Roberts v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
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