Hullinger v. Worrell

Citations

• 83 Ill. 220

Syllabus

<p>Sheriff—liability, civilly, for escape of prisoner. Where a sheriff negligently permits one in his custody under an indictment for an assault with a deadly weapon upon B, with intent to inflict a bodily injury, to escape, and go at large, and such person makes a further assault upon A, and threatens to take his life, whereby A is put to expense in having him bound over to keep the peace, A can not maintain an action on the case against the sheriff for the escape, nor for damages from the subsequent acts of the escaped prisoner, as they are not the natural and probable consequence of the escape.</p>