Barnes v. City of Chicago

Maggie Barnes, the appellant, brought an action against the city of Chicago, the appellee, in the circuit court of Cook county, for damages, predicated upon section 5 of an act entitled “An act to suppress mob violence,” approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905. (Smith’s Stat. 1925, p. 938.) The declaration contained two counts. The first charged that there assembled in the city more than five persons for the unlawful purpose of offering violence to the person and property of anyone supposed to have been guilty of a violation of the law and to exercise correctional and regulative powers…