ALVAREZ v. REYNOLDS

Gen. No. 48,450.

35 Ill. App.2d 54 (1962)

181 N.E.2d 616

Louis Alvarez, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eugene Reynolds and John Leavitt, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Rehearing denied March 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Melaniphy, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago (Sydney R. Drebin and John J. O'Toole, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellants.

Joseph Barbera, of Chicago (John W. Schelthoff and Charles D. Snewind, of counsel), for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict for $10,000 in an action for false arrest and imprisonment. Defendants are officers in the Chicago Police Department. They arrested plaintiff at approximately 2:45 a.m., on May 29, 1953. About fifteen minutes earlier, defendants had been standing at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Halsted Street, an industrial...

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