Baldwin v. Smith

This was trespass with force and arms, brought to the White circuit court by Michael Smith, plaintiff, and against the town of Grayville and William F. Baldwin, the president, and Benjamin Batson and others, members of the town council, and Isaac II. Hamilton, constable of the town of Grayville, defendants.

The defendants pleaded the general issue, and several special pleas, to which latter demurrers were sustained, and the cause tried upon the general issue. The jury found for the plaintiff, assessing his damages at two hundred and twenty dollars, whereupon a motion for a new trial was made…