Dilcher v. Raap

Citations

• 73 Ill. 266

Syllabus

<p>1. Abbest—rights of officers called on to assist in re-arrest. Police officers called upon to assist in the arrest of a party by another officer, who do so upon the information and under the honest belief that such party had been arrested for the breach of an ordinance and had escaped, will not be held liable in trespass for false imprisonment.</p> <p>2. But if a police officer gets into a personal difficulty with a private person, himself being the aggressor, and other police officers afterwards arrive and assist in the arrest and imprisonment of such person, not acting in the honest discharge of official duly, but rather in the espousal of the first named officer’s private quarrel, and in carrying out his purpose of revenge and the infliction of injury, they will all be liable in trespass for the arrest.</p>