Sandford Tool & Fork Co. v. Mullen

This was an action for false imprisonment. The appellant was the defendant in the court below. The complaint alleges that the appellant’s officers and agents caused and procured appellee’s arrest and imprisonment on the charge of larceny, falsely preferred. The appellant answered the complaint, in three paragraphs :

First. General denial.

Second. Alleging compromise and settlement of the cause of action.

Third. Justification of the arrest and imprisonment.

A demurrer was sustained to the third paragraph of the answer, and excepted to. The appellee replied, by general denial, to the second…