POYER v. BOUSTEAD

Gen. No. 10,763.

3 Ill. App.2d 562 (1954)

122 N.E.2d 838

Emmet C. Poyer et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Thomas Boustead, Chief of Police, City of Rockford, Illinois et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Released for publication December 23, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

RUSSELL J. GOLDMAN, of Rockford, for appellants.

ANGELO N. GAZIANO, and LAVERNE E. ANDERSON, both of Rockford, for appellees.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE WOLFE delivered the opinion of the court.

Emmet C. Poyer and twenty-two others, members of the C.I.O. unions in Rockford, Illinois, were on January 12, 1954, assembled in the vicinity of the Quaker Oats Company in Rockford, Illinois. There was a strike in progress against the company and on that day the chief of police arrested the above named plaintiffs for violation of the city ordinance, and all of them were placed in the jail in Rockford...

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