Robison v. Hardy

Citations

• 38 F. 49
• 1889 U.S. App. LEXIS 2781

Syllabus

<p>Rehoyad of Causes — Locad Phejcdick — Affidavit. An affidavit for the removal of an action for false imprisonment from the circuit court of Cook county, Ill., to the United States circuit court, alleged that there had been four long jury trials involving these matters before the circuit court of Cook county, a hearing before a justice of the peace, the grand jury, the appellate court, and the directors of the board of trade ; that the case involved the manner of doing business on the board of trade ; that it had caused a great deal of talk around the court-house, and had become widely known ; that many warehousemen, elevator men, brokers, commission men, and many thousands of people in and around Cook county had discussed it, and that through the influence of plaintiff and his friends, defendants believed a prejudice had grown up against them, who were non-residents. ‘Held that, as the Illinois statute provides that a cause may be removed for local prejudice to some other court of competent jurisdiction in some other convenient county, to which there is no valid objection, the existence of prejudice was not sufficiently shown to justify removal to the federal court: the affidavit shows that the prejudice is confined mainly, if not entirely, to Cook county.</p>