Case ID: ill-app_223/html/0641-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Thomson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Melville Reeves, plaintiff in error, v. Michael Vaughn et al., defendants in error.
    Gen. No. 25,877.
    Action for damages against police officers alleging that they made an assault upon plaintiff and beat and ill-treated him and detained him in prison without reasonable cause. Action dismissed and judgment for defendants for costs. Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Martin M. Gridley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1920.
    Reversed and remanded with directions.
    Opinion filed December 21, 1921.
    Charles P. R. Macaulay, for plaintiff in error.
    Peden, Kahn & Murphy, for defendant in error Thomas Sheehan.
   Mr. Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.