Appellate Court of Illinois May 29, 1963, Gen. No. 49,085 (Sarelas v. Gekas)

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

The original action in this ease was for conspiracy, defamation and assault and battery — the outgrowth of a meeting held by the Hellenic Professional Society of Illinois on October 31, 1958 — in which the plaintiff Peter S. Sarelas, a lawyer, asked damages of $100,000 from the nineteen defendants, eight of whom are lawyers.