Goodwine v. Stephens

Complaint for false imprisonment.

The defendant answered in four paragraphs :—

1. General denial.

“ 2. That, on the 9th day of February, 1875, the said plaintiff and George Conner, Francis Seals, "William Malbie, David Pickerell, Frank Seals, John Records, John Stephens, Squire Stephens, and William Thompson, at the county of Warren and State of Indiana, were engaged in the commission of a trespass upon the property of the defendant ; and that, on that day, before George Pence, an acting justice of the peace of said county, said defendant filed an affidavit charging said plaintiff and said other…